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Song title:      Car Crash
Original Album:  Some Mad Hope

Words and Music by Matt Nathanson
Copyright © 2007 Vanguard Records and Acrobat Records
Published by Matt Nathanson

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 1 if you want to play along with the album version.
Chords are relative to capo position. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:

[play: | G |]


VERSE:
Chords:
G      320033    Em7    022033
Dsus4  xx0233    Cadd9  x32033

    G
I'm wide awake and so alive
Em7            Dsus4
Ringing like a bell
G
Tell me this is paradise
    Em7              Dsus4
And not some place I fell 
                 G
'Cause I keep on falling down


CHORUS:
Chords:
Em7    022033    Cadd9  x32033
Dsus4  xx0233    G      320033

  Em7                Dsus4
I wanna feel the car crash
  Cadd9             G
I wanna feel the capsize
                 Em7            Dsus4
I wanna feel the bomb drop, the earth stop
         Cadd9   G
Till I'm satis - fied

  Em7                Dsus4
I wanna feel the car crash
           Cadd9          G
'Cause I'm dying on the inside
            Em7    Dsus4
I wanna let go and know that
        Cadd9      G
I'll be alright, alright


VERSE:
Chords:
G      320033    Em7    022033
Dsus4  xx0233    Cadd9  x32033

G                
Push me 'til I have to fly
     Em7              Dsus4
I've shed my skin, my scars
G 
Take me deep out past the lights
      Em7                Dsus4
Where nothing dims these stars,
                  G
Nothing dims these stars 


[repeat CHORUS]


INTERLUDE:
Chords:
Em7    022033    Cadd9  x32033
Dsus4  xx0233    G      320033
D      xx0232


[play: | Cadd9 |]  [x2]


Cadd9  G                 
  So   right________ight

Cadd9  Em7  Dsus4  Cadd9
    So wro__________ong

G
I'm wide awake and so alive


[repeat CHORUS]


OUTRO:
Chords:
Em7    022033    Cadd9  x32033
Dsus4  xx0233    G      320033


[play: | Em7 | Dsus4 | Cadd9 | G |]


                Em7  Dsus4  Cadd9  G
'Cause I'm open wide

Oooh

[play: | Em7 | Dsus4 | Cadd9 | G |]


     Em7   Dsus4  Cadd9  G
Oooh-ooohh