Whatever I Fear Tab by Toad The Wet Sprocket


Tab: "Whatever I Fear," by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)

Guitar 1 is an acoustic, capoed at the sixth fret
Guitar 2 is an electric, also capoed at the sixth

Rhythm figure 1, Guitar 1:

     Am            G
||---0-0--0--0--0--3-3--3--3--3-3--3--3---||
||---1-1--1--1--1--3-3--3--3--3-3--3--3---||
||*--0h2--2--2--2--0-0--0--0--0-0--0--0--*|| play three times
||*--0h2--2--2--2--0-0--0--0--0-0--0--0--*||
||---0-0--0--0--0--0h2--2--2--0h2--2--2---||
||----------------------------------------||

   Gsus4/F  G/D   G/C G
|---------------------------|
|--1-1--1--0-0-----0--0--0--|
|--0-0--0--0-0--0--0--0--0--|
|--0-0--0--0-0--0--0--0--0--|
|----------3/5--5--3--2--2--|
|--0h1--1----------------3--|                        


|--NH-------------|
|----NH--------|
|---------NH---| Fill 1
|--------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|

     Am      G          Gsus4/F    G           Am (to verse)
||------------------||----------------------|-----|
||------------------||----------------------|-----|
||*-------0--------*||----------------------|-----| Riff 1
||*-------------0--*||--2b(3)r2p0-----------|-----|
||---2/3-----2------||-------------2b(3)r2--|--0--|
||------------------||----------------------|-----|


Intro:
Guitar 1 plays rhythm figure 1 twice
Guitar 2 plays Fill 1 the first time through. The second time,
        the band enters and guitar 2 plays Riff 1


Verse: w/ rhythm figure 1 twice

there's almost nothing left
you eat my kind for breakfast
what did i expect
                      * w/ Fill 1
to come here and find anyone?
find open arms to greet me
and friends to feed me
i sicken myself so much
and you eat my kind for breakfast

* w/ Fill 2
you eat my kind

|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------| Fill 2
|--2b(3)r2p0------------|
|-------------2b(3)~~~--|
|-----------------------|


Chorus:
   Fmaj7add4    Gadd6    Em     Cmaj7/E
|--0---------|--0-----|--0---|--0--|
|--0---------|--0-----|--0---|--0--|
|--2---------|--0-----|--0---|--0--|
|--3---------|--0-----|--2---|--2--|
|--3---------|--2-----|--2---|--3--|
|--1---------|--3-----|--0---|--0--|

Both guitars play these chords. Guitar 1 strums, guitar 2 holds them


Fmaj7add4                   Gadd6
whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me

Em                            Cmaj7/E
whenever i let my guard down, whatever i was ignoring

whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me
whatever i have been given, whatever i have been

*With Rhythm figure 1 and Riff 1

Verse:
seeing myself this way
i am a monster i believe
and seeing is believing

         * (w/ Fill 3)
is there no doubt left
when i wake up i poison myself
amd poison leaves no appetite
i sicken myself so much

  * (w/ Fill 2)
i sicken myself so

|---------------------|-----|
|---------------------|-----|
|---------------------|-----| Fill 3
|---------------------|-----|
|-----------2b(3)~~~--|--0--|
|--3--0--3------------|-----|



Chorus:
whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me
whenever i let my guard down, whatever i was ignoring
whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me
whatever i have been given, whatever i have been

*With Rhythm figure 1 and Riff 1

Bridge: (Guitar 2 tacet, Guitar 1 plays chords)

    Am G            Em        F
did we expect these things to change

   Am     G      F        Em
by waking up and suddenly there they are

    Am    G        Em       F
and all i need's a starting place

    Am      G    F*        Em   *(w/ Fill 1)
and nothing ever seemed so hard...

             *(w/ Fill 4)
Fmaj7add4    Gadd6    Em     Cmaj7/E

                        NH
|------------|--NH---|----|
|--NH--------|----|-------|
|----NH---|-------|-------| Fill 4
|---------|-------|-------|
|------------|-------|-------|
|------------|-------|-------|


Play chorus four times, vocal adlib on final two

end with Em-G Am