Understanding In A Car Crash Bass Tab

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Band: Thursday
Song: Understanding in a Car Crash
Album: Full Collapse
Tabbed by: Chris (Chris_blitz2000@msn.com)
Tuning: Drop D (D,A,D,G)

r = ring
h = hammer on
p = pull off
 = slide up

Intro/Chorus:  x4
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------3-3-3--------------------|
D|-7-7-7-7-7-7-5h7-7-7-7-7-7-5h7p5-3-3-3-----0-0-0-3-3-3-3-0h3-3-|

Then...(0:27)
G|----------|
D|----3r----|
A|----------|
D|----------|

Verse:  x2
G|-----5h7p5---5---------5------5-|
D|-0-3------7----7-5-3-3---3--3---|
A|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|

Then...(0:41)  
G|--------------------------5--------5-|
D|-0-3-7h9p7(5)7h9p7--5-3-3---3---3----|
A|-------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------|

Then go back and play the verse 1x 

Chorus: x4
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------3-3-3--------------------|
D|-7-7-7-7-7-7-5h7-7-7-7-7-7-5h7p5-3-3-3-----0-0-0-3-3-3-3-0h3-3-|

"Staring at the setting sun..."  (1:17)   x2
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------8-8-8-8-7-7-7-7-8---------------------------------|
D|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-------------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|

"I don't want to feel this way forever..."   (1:28)   x2
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|

Verse: (1:40)  x1
G|------------5------5------5h7p5---5---------5------5-|
D|-7--7-5-3-3---3--3----0-3------7----7-5-3-3---3--3---|
A|-----------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------|

"So push the seats back a little further..."   (1:52)  x4
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-37-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-0h3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|

Chorus x4

"Staring at the setting sun..." part x2

"I don't want to feel this way forever..." part x4

Then play this x2... (3:13)  
G|-------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------8-8--7-7-7----------------------------|
D|-7-7-7--7-7-7--7------------0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0-|

Then this x2...  (3:25)  
G|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|-7-7-7--7-7-7--3-3-3--3-3-3--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0-|

Then x2...  (3:37)
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|

Now you play this x4
G|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|-7-7-7--7-7-7--3-3-3--3-3-3--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0-|

End on:
G|------|
D|------|
A|------|
D|--7r--|

This song took me a while to tab but im sure its correct...i listening
to the bass in the song very careful and i tab what i hear. enjoy!
(and no i didn't steal bits and parts from the other two tabs, i figured it
out all on my own)  Please rate this tab!!!

Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: BassMasta.net
http://www.bassmasta.net/t/thursday/.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture J. Wanna Be	#1 by J. Stone at Mar 15, 1986 at 12:37 AM EST
	i'm not saying we're not in control, what i'm saying is that how much something can change very fast.

No Picture Solstice Rhythm Player	#2 by Solstice Statton at Feb 29, 1996 at 6:16 PM EST
	Ok, so... I've read everyone's own personal meanings and I also feel that the song is a bit of a drug abuse song and a broken relationship song all in one. If it wasn't about drugs, then why the hell would he waste his time adding "white lines" and "needle and the damage done" and also, if you think about it, he "crashes his car the same way everyday" kinda like a daily drug addiction. So hate me if you want to, but that's what I think. And anyway, whatever it's about it still is super deep, a song to remember, and definately not written by some stupid fool who doesn't know what the f--- he's doin'. -----BK3

No Picture Omar Average	#3 by Omar Rodriguez at Apr 20, 1997 at 9:31 PM EST
	the song is about him and his significant other parting ways and him feeling like he's been in a car crash...not him wanting to crash his car. the needles and veins refer to his feeling numb about losing the girl. xindreamsx

No Picture Waz Wanna Be	#4 by Waz at Mar 24, 1998 at 10:16 AM EST
	this song is simply about a broken relationship.... it talks about their last goodbye and how it affects him. he is constantly depressed and feels as if he wants to crash his car. thankyou. piece all - jay

No Picture Alex Wanna Be	#5 by Alex Ovari at Oct 12, 2005 at 9:33 PM EST
	have any of you seen the video for this song? it's quite awsome.

No Picture Yea Average	#6 by Yea ... at Oct 26, 2005 at 8:31 PM EST
	The song i believe he i dealing with losing a special someone to a car crash and possibly turning to drugs to deal w/ the loss. and i have corrected the lyrics that were so off it wasnt even funny!!

No Picture James Average	#7 by James Cleverley at Oct 30, 2005 at 1:12 PM EST
	What this song means to me is the this guy lost his life partner and how "he crashes his car everday in the same way" is a metaphor for how his daily life is affected by his loss and as he's trying to move on, he can't because the "dead letter marked return to sender" is sign sayin that shes up there waiting for him

No Picture Skinny Fingures Average	#8 by Skinny Fingures O'Brian at Nov 28, 2005 at 8:35 PM EST
	When I listen to this song, I imagine what type of understanding you suddenly have when you are sitting in a car, and you realize that it is about to crash and there is nothing you can do about it. Thats obviously the most intense kind of situation, but more generally its about accepting the inevitablity of pain in life. There are some times you know your life is about to get really fucked up and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it but accept it and move on. Thats what the understanding in a car crash is.

No Picture Andres Wanna Be	#9 by Andres Hernandez at Mar 27, 2006 at 12:46 PM EST
	i liked this song the first time i heard it then i sat down and listened to it and wrote down the lyrics and its now my favorite song i think it talks about an addiction to drugs about following the white lines and the needle and the damage done and crashing the car is bein high the dead letter marked return to sender is someone dead and return to sender means there goin back to where the came from i dont want to feel this way forever a dead letter marked return to sender means he doesnt want to be doin drugs forever and how he doesnt wanna die from it staring at the setting sun no reason to come back again is when there gonna do it and they have no reason to stop and the twilight world in blue and white is bein high this is song is amazing thats all i can say

No Picture Ian Average	#10 by Ian Slay at Feb 6, 2007 at 10:05 PM EST
	This song is about his girlfriend dying in a car crash. He is trying to move on with his life, but he can't let it go. He tries to move away from where it happened, but it dosen't help. "He dosent want to feel this way forever."

No Picture Bjorn Average	#11 by Bjorn Nordvall at Jun 30, 2007 at 10:50 PM EST
	i can relate well with this song. it helped me cope with a suicide. thursday's lyrics are insanely real.