[Verse 1]
C Fmaj7 G C Fmaj7 G
Lying on the mattress ‘cos my friend’s crazy sister took my bed away
C Fmaj7 G
Sleeping she looked like an actress, in theory and in practice, I said
C Fmaj7 G
“There’s got to be a better way”
C Fmaj7 G
She said “You light a thousand matches, when you finally set fire,
C Fmaj7 G
well you 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
[Interlude]
C
[Verse 2]
C Fmaj7 G C Fmaj7 G
I hit the wall in frustration, the conversation had been circling for days
C Fmaj7 G
She said “Don’t take it out on him, for the wall has always been
C Fmaj7 G
supportive in the best of ways”
C Fmaj7 G C Fmaj7 G
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 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
And she said “Nothing’s changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let ’em go”
[Interlude]
C
C
Am
C
[Verse 3]
C Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Fmaj7 Gadd11
She handed me a stone in the perfect shape of a heart
C Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Fmaj7 Gadd11
She said “I’m gonna take this home for I know you’ll only lose it somewhere after dark
C Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Fmaj7 Gadd11
In some faceless hotel room 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
[Chorus]
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
And she said “Nothing’s changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let ’em go”
C
[Bridge]
Fmaj7 G C
Sometimes you tear it all apart
Fmaj7 G C
to see the wood from the trees
Fmaj7 G C Em Am (quick walk down from C to Am)
Sometimes you break your own heart
Fmaj7 G C
to set yourself free
[Interlude]
C
C
Am
C
[Verse 4]
C Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Fmaj7 Gadd11
I walked her to the station, hesitation in our movements and our tone
C Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Fmaj7 Gadd11
Words finally left after they realized how uncomfortable they’d grown
C Fmaj7 Gadd11 C Fmaj7 Gadd11
See, what you want and what you need, well they seldomly succeed to grow
Am Em Fmaj7 G
We reluctantly agreed, that when you love someone, you’ve got to let them go
