Collide (Howie Day song)

"Collide" is the second single from singer/songwriter Howie Day's second full-length album, Stop All The World Now, released in 2003. The song, co-written with Better Than Ezra frontman Kevin Griffin, follows in the vein of works from other pop balladeers like Dave Matthews, John Mayer and Duncan Sheik. The London Session Orchestra provided backing instrumentation on the initial album version of the song.

Like much of Day's work, the song's lyrics are rooted in a relationship, with notes of the occasional adversity the two people involved may face.

The music video was filmed in Toronto.

[edit] Airplay & Additional Versions

The popularity of "Collide" built slowly on U.S. radio, at first gaining the greatest success on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart. Chart performance benefitted significantly from a reissue of Stop All the World Now in a special edition that included four bonus tracks, one being an acoustic version of the song that reached #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Collide" has since been used in promotion of various television series, including What About Brian, Friday Night Lights and General Hospital, as well as the 2005 film adaptation of Pride & Prejudice and the 2004 film The Perfect Man.

This song has also been featured during episodes of Scrubs, ER, Bones, Third Watch, Cold Case, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Grey's Anatomy, Joan of Arcadia

In March 2007, mashup-artist Norwegian Recycling featured this song in a mashup along with Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours", Five for Fighting's "Superman (It's Not Easy)", 3 Doors Down's "Here Without You", Angela Ammons's "Always Getting Over You" and Boyzone's "All That I Need". A video for YouTube was also made. The song and the video were featured at the Mashuptown podcast.