Whatever I Fear Lyrics

Tab: "Whatever I Fear," by Toad the Wet Sprocket
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:
||*--0h2--2--2--2--0-0--0--0--0-0--0--0--*|| play three times
|--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:
Both guitars play these chords. Guitar 1 strums, guitar 2 holds them
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
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--|
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 we expect these things to change
by waking up and suddenly there they are
and all i need's a starting place
Am G F* Em *(w/ Fill 1)
and nothing ever seemed so hard...
*(w/ Fill 4)
NH
|------------|--NH---|----|
|--NH--------|----|-------|
|----NH---|-------|-------| Fill 4
Play chorus four times, vocal adlib on final two
end with Em-G Am