Passenger – Bloodstains (Guitar Intro Tab)
Capo 5
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Attempt to capture the way Mike played this for his Flight of the Crow Live Stream 28 February 2021:
The track begins at 47:02 in his album live stream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQAujzlL0gI
He does the C G/B Am walkdown in the chorus in the live version so, although it does not seem to be in the
album version, I still included it. Note that in the album version (and other versions with a female singing
half the song) the words "you're" and "I'm" are reversed in Verse 2. If strumming this song instead of picking
it as he does, I recommend using the Gsus4 throughout the song instead of the G6sus4 and using the Fmaj7sus2*
shape, which is the more traditional shape for this chord.
The general picking pattern for this song matches the intro.
Fret numbers relative to capo for this pre-intro line that gets layered in throughout the album recording. (I think I have the rythm right...): e-8---------8-----7---------7-----|-5--------5------3-----3---0-----| B-------5---------------5---------|-------5-------------------------| G---------------------------------|---------------------------------| 2x D---------------------------------|---------------------------------| A---------------------------------|---------------------------------| E---------------------------------|---------------------------------| 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
[Chords]
C x32010
Am7 x02010
Fmaj7sus2 1x2010
G6sus4 3x2010
Bb6 x1303x
A7sus2 x0200x
Gsus4 3x0010
Fmaj7sus2* 1x3010
G 3x0003
D7 xx0212
D7sus2 xx0210
D7sus4 xx0213
[Intro] C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 e---------------------------------|---------------------------------| B-------1-------1-------1-------1-|-------1-------1-------1-------1-| G---0-------0-------0-------0-----|---0-------0-------0-------0-----| 2x D-----2-------2-------2-------2---|-----2-------2-------2-------2---| A-3-------3-------0-------0-------|---------------------------------| E---------------------------------|-1-------1-------3-------3-------| 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
[Intro]
C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 x4
[Verse 1]
C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 Well, I'm aching and you're aching with these dull and empty hearts, C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 We're waiting for somebody to rip our ribs apart, and C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 To seize with a steady hand our dull and empty hearts. Our hearts.
[Instrumental]
C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4
[Verse 2]
C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 You're taking and I'm taking we've forgotten how to give, C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 You're faking it, I'm breaking it, it's just the way it is. So, C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 Am7 We'll leave here tonight but not before we give each other back our hearts.
[Chorus]
Em 'Cos our love, Fmaj7sus2* C Left us long ago, C G/B Am7 Em When we were both asleep, Bb6 Am7 A7sus2 Leaving blood stains in the snow, Am7 Leaving blood stains in the snow. [Instrumental] C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 e-0---------------0---------------|-0---------------0---------------| B-----------1---------------1-----|-----------1---------------1-----| G-------0-------0-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-------0-------0-| 2x D-----2-------2-------2-------2---|-----2-------2-------2-------2---| A-3-------3-------0-------0-------|---------------------------------| E---------------------------------|-1-------1-------3-------3-------| 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
[Verse 3]
C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 I'm waiting and you're waiting but this train's not gonna come, C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 Your voice has started grating and I hate what we've become, C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 See, there's no future at this station we're just feeding off the crumbs, of our hearts.
[Instrumental]
C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4
[Verse 4]
C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 I'm shaking and you're shaking it's just the way it's got to be, C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 In this love abandoned Autumn we'll go raking up the leaves. Yeah, C Am7 Fmaj7sus2 G6sus4 Am7 The leaves that have fallen from these cold and dying trees in our hearts.
[Chorus]
Em 'Cos our love, Fmaj7sus2* C Left us long ago, C G/B Am7 Em When we were both asleep, Bb6 Am7 A7sus2 Am7 Leaving blood stains in the snow.
[Bridge]
Fmaj7sus2* Well I'm lonely like you're lonely, G But it's only 'cos it's thrown me, C Like it's thrown you I don't own you, Am7 And my darling you don't own me, Fmaj7sus2* And it's kicking and it's yelling, G And it's bruising and it's swelling, C But the writing's on the wall, C/B Am7 D7sus2 D7 And we both know what it's been telling us to do, D7 D7sus4 D7 Telling us to do.
[Outro]
C Am7 Fmaj7sus2* Gsus4 Well I'm crying and you're crying into silent salty lakes, C Am7 Fmaj7sus2* Gsus4 The road has turned to ice and we haven't any brakes, C Am7 So while the wall keeps getting closer, Fmaj7sus2* Gsus4 C I fear it's too late not to break our hearts.