Biography:
Matchbook Romance is an post-hardcore band from Poughkeepsie, New York and were originally known as The Getaway.
The band formed in 1997, constisting of Andrew Jordan (vocals & guitar), Ryan "Judas" DePaolo (backing vocals & guitar), Ryan Kienle (bass) and Aaron Stern (drums).
They have released two albums: Stories and Alibis (2003) and Voices (2006), one EP named West for Wishing (2003) and one split EP with Motion City Soundtrack .
Matchbook Romance headlined the Epitaph Tour in early 2005
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Other songs:
- In Transit For You
- Monsters
- 14 Balloons
- Cream Soda
- Ex Marks The Spot
- Farewell To Friends
- Fiction
- Goody Like Two Shoes
- Hidden Track
- Hollywood And Vine
- I Wish You Were Here
- If All Else Fails
- Lovers And Liars
- My Eyes Burn
- My Mannequin Can Dance
- Portrait
- Promise
- Save Yourself
- Say It Like You Mean It
- Shadows Like Statues
- Shell Never Understand
- Singing Bridges
- Stay Tonight
- Stories And Alibis
- Story Of A Girl Cover
- Surrender
- The Greatest Fall Of All Time
- Tiger Lily
- What A Sight
- You Can Run But Well Find You
- Your Stories My Alibis
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Matchbook Romance
My Eyes Burn
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: F#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Ebm - x68876
C# - x46664
B - x24442
F# - 244322
Bbm - x13321
G#m - 466444
Bb - x13331
Interlude: Ebm--C#--B--Bbm-G#m
Verse 1:
Ebm
My eyes burn from
these tears
C#
You think you'd
B
learn over these years
Good things won't
Bbm G#m
last forever
Ebm
So what the hell am
I supposed to do
C#
You only wanted the things
B
that I couldn't give to you
Bbm G#m
And you had it all anyway
Chorus:
Ebm
So take take everything
C#
and leave me scrambling
B
Reaching for something that
Bbm G#m
wasn't there in the first place
Ebm
So take take everything
C#
and leave me scrambling
B
Reaching for something that
Bbm G#m
wasn't there in the first place
Interlude: Ebm-- x4
Verse 2:
B
Tell me i'm wrong when I say
C#
say I can't expect you to
B Bb
spend forever with me
B C# Ebm C# B
I live for that single moment
Bbm G#m Ebm
I take back everything i've said
C#
You wore those words on your lips
B Bbm G#m
As if they meant anything anyway
Ebm B
Sometimes I feel I could drop
C#
off the face of the earth
B Bbm
It seems I do more harm than good
G#m B
And I don't know if it's worth
C#
me loosing sleep over this
(Repeat Chorus)
Interlude: Ebm---B-C#
Ebm--F#--C#--Ebm
Bridge:
Tell me I'm wrong
B
when I say it
C#
I can't expect you to
B Bb G#m
stay forever with me
B
I live for the
C#
single moment
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro: Ebm(hold)
My Eyes Burn
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: F#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Ebm - x68876
C# - x46664
B - x24442
F# - 244322
Bbm - x13321
G#m - 466444
Bb - x13331
Interlude: Ebm--C#--B--Bbm-G#m
Verse 1:
Ebm
My eyes burn from
these tears
C#
You think you'd
B
learn over these years
Good things won't
Bbm G#m
last forever
Ebm
So what the hell am
I supposed to do
C#
You only wanted the things
B
that I couldn't give to you
Bbm G#m
And you had it all anyway
Chorus:
Ebm
So take take everything
C#
and leave me scrambling
B
Reaching for something that
Bbm G#m
wasn't there in the first place
Ebm
So take take everything
C#
and leave me scrambling
B
Reaching for something that
Bbm G#m
wasn't there in the first place
Interlude: Ebm-- x4
Verse 2:
B
Tell me i'm wrong when I say
C#
say I can't expect you to
B Bb
spend forever with me
B C# Ebm C# B
I live for that single moment
Bbm G#m Ebm
I take back everything i've said
C#
You wore those words on your lips
B Bbm G#m
As if they meant anything anyway
Ebm B
Sometimes I feel I could drop
C#
off the face of the earth
B Bbm
It seems I do more harm than good
G#m B
And I don't know if it's worth
C#
me loosing sleep over this
(Repeat Chorus)
Interlude: Ebm---B-C#
Ebm--F#--C#--Ebm
Bridge:
Tell me I'm wrong
B
when I say it
C#
I can't expect you to
B Bb G#m
stay forever with me
B
I live for the
C#
single moment
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro: Ebm(hold)
Mating Ritual
Matis Yahu
Matisse
Matisyahu
Matmatah