A Thousand Matches - Passenger

Lying on a mattress cause my friend’s crazy sister took my bed away

Sleeping she looked like an actress in theory and in practice

I said there’s got to be a better way

She said you light a thousand matches

When you finally set fire will you run away?

So why’d you go and do it

When you knew that you would go and I would stay?

I hit the wall in frustration, the conversation had been circling for days

She said don’t take it out on him, for the wall has always been

Supportive in the best of ways

We’re laughing and crying like madmen dying in the snow

For just one second it was funny that she would have to stay and I would go

And I said love, you know, I love you so

When you love someone well you’ve gotta let 'em know

She said «Nothing's changed, I love you the same

When you love someone, sometimes you gotta let 'em go»

She handed me a stone in the perfect shape of a heart

She said I’m gonna take this home

For I know you’ll only lose it somewhere after dark

In some faceless hotel room

You seem to lose everything you know

She didn’t mean it how it sounded

What she meant was she would stay and I would go

And I said love, you know, I love you so

When you love someone well you’ve gotta let 'em know

She said «Nothing's changed

I love you the same

When you love someone

Sometimes you gotta let 'em go»

Sometimes you tear it all apart

To see the wood from the trees

Sometimes you break your own heart

To set yourself free

I walked her to the station

Hesitation in our movements and our tone

Words finally left after realizing

How uncomfortable they’d grown

See, what you want and what you need, well

They seldomly succeed to grow

We reluctantly agreed that when you love someone

You gotta let them go