Gang of Youths - Fear and trembling
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Capo: 2
Tuning: E A D G B E
This probably isn't how they play it, but this is how I'm doing it. More doing this for my own frame of
reference haha
I also like to play this in open D tuning (D A D F# A D), so if you use that tuning and transpose this +2,
that's another good option as well
[Intro]
C F C G E7/G# Am
F C G Gsus G
[Verse 1]
There's a moCosehead hanging
From a wFall at a bCar at a
NondGescript part of the strAmeet
There's a lFong-haired boy
Making Ceyes at a jGohn
By the lFamplights hung from the bCeams
We're at the stCumbling phase
Of the Fmidnight walCtz
At a Gbookend to the wE7/G#eirdest of wAmeeks
Me and AFrnold walk
Pretty hCammered and cGrying
"Hey, I'll Fmiss you man, when you leaCve"
Yeah, I'll mFiss you when you leCave
'Coz there are feCelings that are strong
And there are oFnes that are mCixed
At the dGawn of my yE7/G#oung life's ecAmlipse
I was a bFoy once, now
I'm a kCind-of-aduGlt
Catching Fup on the cool shit I mCissed
'Coz we were raCised where the pastors
They dFanced in the aiCsles
With a moGshpit up fE7/G#ront full of yAmouths
So if fFaith is to lose
The mCind to win GGod
Then I gFuess I got nothing to prCove
I guFess I got nothing to prCove
[Break]
(I do mostly loud single strums here)
F F F F C C C C
F F F F C
[Verse 2]
I was waiCting on the future
CBut the future only came
CIn the form of greying matter
CIn my only father's brain
I'm not afFraid of acquiescing
FTo the trials of his old age
FBut of missing all the humanness
FHe'll show when I'm away
And the pCart of me unspoken
CAnd the part that's self assured
CAre belligerents divergent
CIn a psychic civil war
But I'm a crFier and a fighter
FNot a faker and a fraud
FSo if losing my religion
FIs the way to finding God
Then light it Cup
The shadow's in my blood
"Oh, a weGary heart", they say
"It shaFtters it all"
So light it uCp
It's bound to be much worse
When you gGet get get get back to the summer
If you gFet get get get back to the summer at aCll
[Verse 3]
There's an oCmen now of frailty
CHanging heavy from my face
CA kind of existential loneliness
CThat struts and frets a stage
And disFappears unsatiated by
FThe rhythms of the day
FStill illuminating nothing
FBut the love I turn away
And I still cCare about the present
CAnd the weight of circumstance
CTo the muckraking of cowards
CAnd a symphony of sass
While I have qFuestions of mortality
FThe clear and present vast
FThey just yell the words "pretentious"
F"With no clarity or class"
So light 'em upC
Their shadows in my blood
"Oh, a wGeary heart", they say
"It shaFtters it all"
So line 'em uCp
It's bound to be much worse
Oh, when you gGet get get get back to the summer
If you gFet get get get back to the summer
When you gGet get back to the summer
If you gFet get get get back to the summer at alCl
[Break]
C One timeF C F C
[Bridge]
F I feel everything
Yeah I feel it all C
And I feel it in my bones and in my fucking skull
F I feel everything
Yeah I feel it all
And I nCever look back
Oh, and I feel it in my heart attack
F And I feel it all
I feel everything C
CAnd I know it's weird
CI fought the fear and trembling
F 'Coz I feel it all
I feel everything C
And I never looked back
This fear, this fear is trembling C
[Verse 4]
And I waCited on forever
CBut forever never came
CJust a latent sense of loyalty
CTo the things I love in vain
And now I'm teFrrified of loving
F'Coz I'm terrified of pain
FAnd of missing out on human things
FBy cowering away
So light 'em upC
Those shadows in my blood
"Oh, a wGeary heart", they say
"It shFatters it all"
So light 'em upC
It's bound to be much worse
Oh, when you Gget get get get back to the summer
If you get gFet get get back to the summer
When you gGet get back to the summer
If you gFet get get get back to the summer at all C