Format – Matches chords

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SONG: "Matches"/"I'm Actual"
ARTIST: The Format
ALBUM: Dog Problems
TABBED BY: Brandon Karcic

Played in standard tuning, but tuning it down is possible. I like to play it a 
full step down, to make the high notes in "I'm Actual" more singable.

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Chords
-C-|-C/B-|-Am-|-Fmaj7-|-D7-|

-0-|--0--|-0--|--0--|-0-|-1-|--1--|-1--|--1--|-1-|-0-|--0--|-2--|--2--|-2-|-2-|--0--|-2--|--3--|-0-|-3-|--2--|-0--|--0--|-0-|-x-|--x--|-x--|--x--|-x-|
Intro: C - C/B - Am - C/B
C C/B Am C/B Ashes to ashes, some dust on the dash
C C/B Am C/BI got my cigarettes
Fmaj7 Am D7 Am But I can't find the fire, it's calming me down
C C/B Am C/B
C C/B Am C/B I was just out on a night with my friends
C C/B Am C/B You are still out on a night with your friends
Fmaj7 Am D7 Am C C/B Am C/BAnd you don't seem to tire when I'm not around
G F C C/B Am C/BI'm under the tunnel, I'm holding my breath
C C/B Am C/B
C C/B Am C/BI searched every pocket that hung in the closet
C C/B Am C/BUntil I found some matches in a brown leather jacket
Fmaj7 Am D7 Am C C/B Am C/BOne I swore I'd never worn, but it once kept you warm
G F C C/B Am C/BDo you remember we made love on the floor?
Fmaj7 Am D7 AmAnd you still haven't called
Fmaj7 Am D7 AmSo I wait until they're closing the bars
C C/B Am C/B G F C (Let this one ring) I made a wish but the match never lit (That's the end of "Matches", then starts "I'm Actual") ----------------------------------------
CCan we take the next hour
C/Band talk about me
C/B Am Talk about me, and we'll talk about me
Am G CTalk about me, and we'll only talk about me
C Can we please take this hour
C/Band talk about me
C/B Am and my hatred for corporate magazines
Am Gyou know they don't speak to me
F G G Am C/B CThe irony is they won't speak with me
C(I'm Actual, I'm Actual...)
VERSE 2
F G Am GI placed you on a windowsill
F G Am GCut notches up and down the door
F G Am GMy surprise, I woke up one morn
F G C (hold)In our bed, In your place lay a note; It read:
(The next part uses simple bar chord shapes, like so.) ----A----Ab/A---G-----F#G-------
D|--7------6-----5------4----------------------------|A|--7------7-----5------5----------------------------|E|--5------4-----3------2----------------------------|
Am Ab/A G F#/GBaby your love it just ain't good enough
F G CI found sunlight six hours away
Am Ab/A G F#/G (let ring)You watered me down 'til I drifted abound
F G CSomewhere far from your shade
F G Am GNow I shadow my former self
F G Am GOnce holy, now lonely; a chest full of
F G Am Gholes; Red wax, it paints me unclear
F G when the big hand strikes twelve
C (let ring) I disappear
Am Ab/A G F#/Gand the angels are fake and they'll lie to your face
F G CAnything to keep you away
Am Ab/A G F#/GYou watered me down 'til I drifted abound
G G G G SOLO SECTION Am Ab/A G F#/G F G C Am Ab/A G F#/G
GIt's time I accept the fact
That you on your back has buried the past
CCan we take the next hour
C/Band talk about me
C/B Am Talk about me, and we'll talk about me
Am G CTalk about me, and we'll only talk about me
C Can we please take this hour
C/Band talk about me
C/B Am and my hatred for corporate magazines
Am Gyou know they don't speak to me
F G G Am C/B C (let the last chord ring!)The irony is they won't speak with me
---------------------------------- That's it! Simple and easy and all that jazz. Enjoy!
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