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Let Her Go chords & lyrics

Passenger · 2012

GuitarEasyFolkKey Em · 4/4Capo 7Chords & Lyrics

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Capo

Fret 7

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Tempo

75 BPM

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Chorus

Well, you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missin' home

Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go

Instrumental

Verse 1

Staring at the bottom of your glass

Hoping one day you'll make a dream last

But dreams come slow and they go so fast

You see her when you close your eyes

Maybe one day you'll understand why

Everything you touch surely dies

Chorus

But you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missin' home

Only know you love her when you let her go

Verse 2

Staring at the ceiling in the dark

Same old empty feeling in your heart

'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast

Well you see her when you fall asleep

But never to touch and never to keep

'Cause you loved her too much

And you dived too deep

Chorus

Well, you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missin' home

Only know you love her when you let her go

Bridge

And you let her go

Ooooo ooooo oooooo

And you let her go

Ooooooo ooooo ooooo

And you let her go

Interlude

Chorus

Well, you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missin' home

Only know you love her when you let her go

Bridge

And you let her go

Ooooo ooooo oooooo

And you let her go

Ooooooo ooooo ooooo

And you let her go

Interlude

Chorus (One Strum)

'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

N.C.

Only hate the road when you're missin' home

Only hate the road when you're missin' home

Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go

About this song

Michael Rosenberg's breakout single as Passenger, from the album All the Little Lights (2012). Four open chords with a capo on the 7th fret: the verses walk Am, F, G to Em and the chorus turns on F, C, G, Am.

How to play it: Folk strum: down, down-up, (miss), up, down-up. Keep it light under the verses and open the strum up on the chorus.

Lead: E minor (A minor shapes with capo 7). The intro picks that loop out of the open shapes. For a solo, A minor pentatonic shapes above the capo sit over the whole song.

Chord Diagrams

Capo 7

F

Chord Info

Notes: F – A – C
Intervals: 1 – 3 – 5
Fingers: 1234
Difficulty: Hard

Strumming Pattern

Pattern

↓1
·&
↓2
↑&
·3
↑&
↓4
↑&

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75 BPM

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F shape with a capo on fret 7: it sounds as C.