Chord/Tab song: Whatever I Fear

Tab: "Whatever I Fear," by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur ([email protected])

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]whatever i fear the most is [Gadd6]whatever i see before me

[Em]whenever i let my guard down, [Cmaj7/E]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)

did [Am]we [G]expect these [Em]things to [F]change

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

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