Matches (song)

"Matches" is a song recorded by American country music artist Sammy Kershaw. It was released in March 1998 as the second single from the album Labor of Love. The song reached #22 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1] The song was written by Skip Ewing and Roger Springer.

"Matches"
Single by Sammy Kershaw
from the album Labor of Love
B-side"Thank God You're Gone"
ReleasedMarch 23, 1998
GenreCountry
Length3:52
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)Skip Ewing, Roger Springer
Producer(s)Keith Stegall
Sammy Kershaw singles chronology
"Love of My Life"
(1997)		 "Matches"
(1998)		 "Honky Tonk America"
(1998)

Content

The song is a ballad, in which the narrator goes home to find his home empty and the matchbook from his first date laying on the floor. He proceeds to take the matchbook to the Broken Spoke restaurant, in which he burns down.

Music video

The music video was directed by Michael Salomon, and it begins with a male coming into his home which has been stripped of his possessions, and seeing the matchbook from his first date laying on the floor. The man then goes to The Broken Spoke, which he lights the matches and breaks various liquor bottles behind the bar and lights the matchbook on fire. As the man and the patrons evacuate the bar as it is engulfed in flames, the man is arrested as his ex-lover appears to survey the damage.

Chart performance
Chart (1998) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 22
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 30
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References
  1. Whitburn, Joel (2012). Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition. Record Research. p. 181.
  2. "Sammy Kershaw Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
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