Tab designed to allow fingerpicking (original) or strumming (simpler)
The Fmaj7 is easiest to play if your thumb holds down the bottom E string
For the Gadd11:
Fingerpicking - notes in brackets are not plucked so you need not hold the strings
Strumming - it will sound more natural to hold the full chord
C Fmaj7 Gadd11 Am Em G
0 0 (3) 0 0 3
1 1 1 1 0 3
[Riff 1]
In this riff, only the bottom E of the Em is plucked / strummed
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
e|---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
B|-----1--------(1)----1-----------|-------1---------------1----------1-|
[Riff #2]
Am Em Fmaj7 G
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----1--------(1)----0---------0-----1---------1-----3--------(3)-|
[Intro - Instrumental]
Riff#1 is played three times, Riff#2 once before returning to 2 bars of C
[Verse 1]
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
Lying on the mattress 'cos my friend's crazy sister took my bed away
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
Sleeping she looked like an actress, in theory and in practice, I said
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
"There's got to be a better way"
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
She said "You light a thousand matches and you finally set fire while you
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
run away
Am Em Fmaj7 G C
So why'd you go and do it when you knew that you would go and I would stay
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
I hit the wall in frustration - the conversation had been circling for days
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 C ...Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
She said "Don't take it out on him, for the wall has always been supportive in the best of ways"
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
We're laughing and crying like mad men dying in the snow
Am Em Fmaj7 G C
For just one second it was funny that she would have to stay and I would go.
[Chorus]
Fmaj7 C G C
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----1---------1-----1---------1-----3---------3-------1---------1-|
Fmaj7 C G C Fmaj7 C G C
She said "Love, you know I love you so; when you love someone well you've got to let them know."
Fmaj7 C G C Fmaj7 C G C
And I said "Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let 'em go"
[Verse 2]
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
She handed me a stone in the perfect shape of a heart
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
She said "I'm gonna take this home for I know you'll only lose it somewhere after dark
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
In some faceless hotel room where you seem to lose everything you own"
Am Em Fmaj7 G C
She didn't mean it how it sounded, what she meant was she would stay and I would go
Fmaj7 C G C Fmaj7 C G C
I said "Love, you know I love you so. When you love someone well you've got to let them know
Fmaj7 C G C Fmaj7 C G C
She said "Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let them go"
(Riff#1 *3)
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
Sometimes you tear it all apart
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
to see the wood from the trees.
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
Sometimes you break your own
C Gadd11 Am
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----1-------1------1--------(1)-----1---------|
Fmaj7 Gadd11
e|----------------------------------|
B|-----1---------1------1---------1-|
(quietly - single plucking / strums)
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
I walked her to the station, hesitation in our movements and our tone
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
Words finally left after they realized how uncomfortable they'd become
C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
See, what you want and what you need, well they seldomly succeed to grow
Am Em Fmaj7 G C
