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COLLIDER ()  Gin Blossoms
Words and Music by ROBIN WILSON
Guitar transcription By Mark Ord
From the Gin Blossoms' live performance - Anchorage, AK - February 5, 2003

NOTES:
    The way the lyrics fall kinda mess up the progression. It's as follows:
    VERSE: G#m - C#m - A - E | A - E - B | B - A (back to G#m)
    CHORUS: E - B - C#m - A
    
    The notes in parenthesis in the chorus are the bass notes Bill plays.
    I'm not 100% certain, but I believe the guitars continue with the
    E B C#m A progression during that section, despite Bill's breakaway
    from it.
    
    This is based on the Gin Blossoms' live performance of the song.
    When Robin plays this solo acoustic, the format is generally the same
    though he tunes down half a step.

INTRO:
    G#m - C#m - A - E
    A  - B  | B - A
    G#m - C#m - A - E
    A - E - B  | B - A
    E - B - C#m - A 

VERSE 1:
    G#m      C#m
    When you walk away
    A              E
    You just don't feel the knife
    A      E             B  (B - A)  G#m
    Always waking up and ......
             C#m
    When you let me down
    A            E
    I don't know what to do
    A             E
    Chalk up your suffering
    B                     A   E
    Bitting off more than you chew

CHORUS:
    B       C#m
    Look so wrong
        A            G# E 
    You know you're not wrong
    B      C#m
    Taking hold
    A           E
    Turning you on
         B/(D#)    C#/(D)   A      E
    I've lost   myself   together now
    B         C#m  A
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VERSE:
    G#m      C#m
    When you walk away
    A              E
    You don't walk fast enough
           A      E             B  (B - A)  G#m
    You're always sticking to the sidewalk
             C#m
    On any other day
    A            E
    You'd tell me where to go
    A             E
    But now you're wondering
    B                     A   E
    If you've given up all you know

    [CHORUS x 1]

    VERSE:
    B            A      E
    I go looking at the stars
                   G#m      C#m
    You're getting blinding headaches
        A              F#m    B
    You recognises the scars
                      A      E
    Would you help me find a way?
        G#m           C#m
    I'm disappointed, and when
             A              E         B
    When you tell me not to look that way
        A                 E      F#m
    You know you've got a lot to explain.

SOLO:
    [E - B - C#m - A] x4
    [C#m - A]

VERSE:
    G#m      C#m
    When you walk away
    A              E
    You just don't feel the knife
    A      E             B  (B - A)  G#m
    Always waking up and ......
             C#m
    When you let me down
    A            E
    I don't know what to do
    A             E
    Chalk up your suffering
    B                     A   E
    Bitting off more than you chew

    [CHORUS x 1]
    B         C#m  A
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