Fear And Trembling - Gang Of Youths

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Capo: Fret 2
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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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]
       
      


[Verse 1]
            
There's a moos

ehead hanging
             
From a wall at

    
 a bar at a
             
Nondescript pa

             
rt of the stre


et
           
There's a long

-haired boy
             
Making eyes at

    
 a john
             
By the lamplig

              
hts hung from 

     
the beams
              
We're at the s

 
tumbling phase
             
Of the midnigh

     
t waltz
             
At a bookend t

         
o the weirdest

     
 of weeks
        
Me and Arnold 

walk
             
Pretty hammere

       
d and crying
             
"Hey, I'll mis

              
s you man, whe

         
n you leave"
             
Yeah, I'll mis

              
s you when you

   
 leave

              
'Coz there are

   
 feelings that

 are strong
              
And there are 

             
ones that are 

 
mixed
             
At the dawn of

         
 my young life

     
's eclipse
         
I was a boy on

ce, now
             
I'm a kind-of-

   
adult
             
Catching up on

              
 the cool shit

    
 I missed
              
'Coz we were r

 
aised where th

e pastors
             
They danced in

       
 the aisles
             
With a moshpit

         
 up front full

     
 of youths
       
So if faith is

 to lose
             
The mind to wi

   
n God
             
Then I guess I

              
 got nothing t

    
o prove
             
I guess I got 

             
nothing to pro

ve


[Break]

(I do mostly loud single strums here)

          
      


[Verse 2]
         
I was waiting 

on the future

But the future

 only came

In the form of

 greying matte

r

In my only fat

her's brain
          
I'm not afraid

 of acquiescin

g

To the trials 

of his old age

But of missing

 all the human

ness

He'll show whe

n I'm away
         
And the part o

f me unspoken

And the part t

hat's self ass

ured

Are belligeren

ts divergent

In a psychic c

ivil war
            
But I'm a crie

r and a fighte

r

Not a faker an

d a fraud

So if losing m

y religion

Is the way to 

finding God
              
Then light it 


up

The shadow's in my blood
         
"Oh, a weary h

eart", they sa

y
       
"It shatters i

t all"
             
So light it up

It's bound to be much worse
          
When you get g

et get get bac

k to the summe

r
             
If you get get

              
 get get back 

              
to the summer 

    
at all


[Verse 3]
            
There's an ome

n now of frail

ty

Hanging heavy 

from my face

A kind of exis

tential loneli

ness

That struts an

d frets a stag

e
       
And disappears

 unsatiated by

The rhythms of

 the day

Still illumina

ting nothing

But the love I

 turn away
             
And I still ca

re about the p

resent

And the weight

 of circumstan

ce

To the muckrak

ing of cowards

And a symphony

 of sass
              
While I have q


uestions of mo

rtality

The clear and 

present vast

They just yell

 the words "pr

etentious"

"With no clari

ty or class"
              
So light 'em u

 
p

Their shadows in my blood
        
"Oh, a weary h

eart", they sa

y
       
"It shatters i

t all"
             
So line 'em up

It's bound to be much worse
              
Oh, when you g


et get get get

 back to the s

ummer
        
If you get get

 get get back 

to the summer
          
When you get g

et back to the

 summer
             
If you get get

              
 get get back 

              
to the summer 

     
at all


[Break]
            
   One time

    


[Bridge]

  I feel every

thing
              
Yeah I feel it

     
 all

And I feel it in my bones and in my fucking skull

   I feel ever

ything
Yeah I feel it all
       
And I never lo

ok back

Oh, and I feel it in my heart attack

   And I feel 

it all
              
I feel everyth

     
ing

And I know it'

s weird

I fought the f

ear and trembl

ing

  'Coz I feel 

it all
              
I feel everyth

    
ing

And I never looked back
              
This fear, thi

              
s fear is trem

      
bling


[Verse 4]
        
And I waited o

n forever

But forever ne

ver came

Just a latent 

sense of loyal

ty

To the things 

I love in vain
              
And now I'm te


rrified of lov

ing

'Coz I'm terri

fied of pain

And of missing

 out on human 

things

By cowering aw

ay
              
So light 'em u

 
p

Those shadows in my blood
        
"Oh, a weary h

eart", they sa

y
      
"It shatters i

t all"
              
So light 'em u

 
p

It's bound to be much worse
             
Oh, when you g

et get get get

 back to the s

ummer
            
If you get get

 get get back 

to the summer
          
When you get g

et back to the

 summer
             
If you get get

              
 get get back 

              
to the summer 

       
at all