Passenger – Things That Stop You Dreaming (Guitar Live)

Capo 5 • Video Lesson
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Chords

Attempt to capture the way he played this song during the full album live stream on February 21, 2021: Capo 4 to play these chords with the album version (note the lyrics are a bit different) Chords with an asterisk indicate a single pluck or strum of the strings. For some of the C chords he hammers on to fret 2 of the D string (see the variation pattern below). Throughout the song, he uses a picking pattern similar to this for each chord and the bass note (indicated in parentheses) on either the E or A string, depending on the chord being played:
                     C variation
e|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----x---------x-|-----1---------1-|
G|-----------x-----|-----------0-----|
D|-----x-------x---|-----0h2------0--|
A|(x)-----(x)------|-3-------2-------|
E|(x)-----(x)------|-----------------|
   1 e + a 2 e + a   1 e + a 2 e + a
Note in the shapes below and patterns above that he seems to avoid the high E string in this live version. [Chords] Fsus2 1x301x Am7 x0201x Gsus4 3x001x C x3201x Em 02200x G 3x000x [Intro] C [Verse 1]
            Fsus2
I’ve got no money in my hands or my coat or my pocket

Am7                       Gsus4
Won't get to space 'cos I haven’t got a rocket

     Fsus2
I’ve air in my lungs

Fsus2
Eyes in my sockets

      C
And a heart that beats

       Gsus4
Like a tap that leaks

        Fsus2
In the night when you haven’t got a plumber who can stop it

 Am7              Gsus4
Jack in a box without a key to lock it

         Em                    Fsus2
Well the boat may sink but I’m not gonna rock it

         Gsus4               Am7
'Cos the sea doesn’t know my name

         Em                    Fsus2
Yeah the boat may sink but I’m not gonna rock it

    Gsus4                C
The sea doesn’t know my name
[Chorus]
            Fsus2
'Cos if you can’t get what you love

    C                 Gsus4
You learn to love the things you’ve got

       Fsus2
If you can’t be what you want

    C               Gsus4
You learn to be the things you’re not

       Fsus2
If you can’t get what you need

    Am7                 Gsus4                      Fsus2
You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming

   Am7         Gsus4                        C
Oh-oh, all the things that stop you dreaming
[Instrumental] C [Verse 2]
             Fsus2*
And I’ve got no one's word and nobody's promise

Am7*                       Gsus4*
Not a lot to show but this book full of sonnets

   Fsus2*
My liver may be fucked but my heart is honest

       C*
And my word is true

         Gsus4*
Like the sky is blue

       Fsus2*
In the summertime when everybody gets on it

   Am7*                   G*
We warm our skins and get sunburnt from it

    Em*                        Fsus2*
Our eyes shine bright like a sky full of comets

     Gsus4             Am7
that shoot like silver trains

         Em                       Fsus2
Yeah our eyes shine bright like a sky full of comets

     Gsus4             C
that shoot like silver trains
[Chorus]
            Fsus2
'Cos if you can’t get what you love

    C                 Gsus4
You learn to love the things you’ve got

       Fsus2
If you can’t be what you want

    C               Gsus4
You learn to be the things you’re not

       Fsus2
If you can’t get what you need

         Am7                 Gsus4                      Fsus2
Then you learn to need the things that stop you dreaming

   Am7         Gsus4                        Fsus2
Oh-oh, all the things that stop you dreaming

Am7       Gsus4                        Fsus2
  All the things that stop you dreaming