Are We Afraid Music by: Glen Phillips and Toad Lyrics by: Glen Phillips Transcribed by: Dwight Lanier hlanier@mindspring.com 2/25/99 This song is done on piano for the most part, of course, but I've taken it and tried to adapt it to guitar. It's played in the key of G when you have the capo on the 4th fret, with two sharps (F#, C#) instead of one. You can play this without a capo, but it's certainly much easier with. Here is the scale that the runs in the song come from: o o o o o ----------- capo on 4th 5 | | | | o | 6 o o o o | o 7 o | | | o o 8 | o o o | | the circles above the line represent an open note in referance to the capo, and the circles below are notes played. I haven't tried to tab all of the runs in this song, but they all apply to this basic scale. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Capo 4 Intro************************ Em G *MAIN RIFF---* --2-0---------------------------------------------------------------- ------3-------------------------------------------------------------- --------4-2-----------0-----0-------------0----0--------------------- ------------4-0-2-----2--0--0-------------2-0--0--------------------- --------------------2----0--2-----------2---0--2--------------------- ------------------0------2--3---------0-----2--3--------------------- Wasn't it hard And did we want penance Summer's so long Colder men when their ice prayer never came Didn't we fight it And weren't we hard Holding back a friend of mine All the way coming home Aren't we the ones who never got tired? *Tag 2x* *chorus riff 1 ** u u d u u=upstrk d=dwnstrk -------------------|---------------5-p-3----3-x-3--------------------- -------------------|---------------0---0----3-x-3---------misc run---- ------------------0|-intro---------0---0----0-x-0--------------------- --0-2-4-2-0---0-2-0|---------------0---0----0-x-0----------------0---- ------------4-----2|-------------------------------------------------- ------------------3|---------------------------------------2-/-5------ Wasn't it magic The flames rolled and I said OK Were we just asking For something to come our way Are we another, were we afraid? Is there a hope that we'll wait -----------------3--------------------------------------------------- -----------------3--------------------------------------------------- -----------------0------------2-------------------------------------- -0-2-4-2-0---0-2-0----0-2-4-2-----2-0-------------------------------- -----------4-----2--------------------------------------------------- -----------------3--------------------------------------------------- To walk a time? He's a long road... Am Bm And I feel like a newborn again C But the night holds on G Em G Hello, I'm coming home --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------2h3--2h3p2p0------------------------------------- ---*Tag* 1x*------2--------------2-0---0---*Tag 1x*------------------ --------------2/4--------------------4------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't we mind waiting And are we ashamed Coming here in the black dark night And I don't feel so strange Are we the lady? Were we afraid? Are we the summer... ------------------3-------------------------------------------------- ------------------3-------------------------------------------------- ------------------0--------------2*********-------------------------- --0-2-4-2-0---0-2-0------0-2-4-2------------------------------------- ------------4-----2-------------------------------------------------- ------------------3--------------------------------------------------