Warrior Guitar Tab

Show Your Bones Tabs:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
WARRIOR - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tabbed by: Chapman Li
Email: chapman_li@hotmail.com
Read in the forum that someone wanted the tab and no one has done it yet, might as well
it i thought - someone has to! I'm a newbie to all this so please give me a rating or
me a mail to say hi.
A good acoustic tune from the more reflective 2nd album I think
Tuning: Standard
Verse
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-5-5-5-5---9-7------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-7-7-7-7---9-7--5-5-5-5---------------------------------------------------|
A|-7-7-7-7---7-5--5-5-5-5---------------------------------------------------|
E|-5-5-5-5--------3-3-3-3---------------------------------------------------|
listen to the record for timing
Chorus
e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-7-7-7---7-7-7----7-7-75-5--------------------------------------------------|
A|-7-7-7---7-7-7----7-7-75-5--------------------------------------------------|
E|-5-5-5---5-5-5----5-5-53-3--------------------------------------------------|
Fill 1 (after 1st Chorus)
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------etc------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------2-5-------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----3-5-----------------------------------------------------------|
Break
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------9-9-9--12-12-12----------7-7-7---------7-7-7------------|
D|-7-7-7--10-10-10--9-9-9--12-12-12---5-5-5--7-7-7--5-5-5--7-7-7------------|
A|-7-7-7--10-10-10--7-7-7--10-10-10---5-5-5--5-5-5--5-5-5--5-5-5------------|
E|-5-5-5--8- 8-8----------------------3-3-3---------3-3-3-------------------|
back to Chorus (i.e. Am - G etc)
| /  slide up
|   slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note
=============================================================================

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/y/yeah_yeah_yeahs/360794.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture dan Average	#1 by dan evans at Oct 4, 2007 at 10:51 AM EST
	i sort of think of this song in existential terms. like the whole "travel the road" thing is a metaphor for life. i don't really think it's about love that much. i think she's saying that life is tough. she's saying that she's trying to be herself but other people aren't. i don't know. i think in saying she's a warrior, she's saying that she has to go out on her own, but that it's hard doing so .

No Picture Max Average	#2 by Max Benton at Oct 7, 2007 at 10:50 PM EST
	i could understand why she would dedicate this song to all the girls in the crowd one: she says "men they like me, cause i am a warrior", men love strong women, but strong women are strong for a reason, i was in a situation where someone wanted to control that, like they couldnt handle the same thing that they were attracted to, to let it flourish, fuck that, i left. women who dont need anyone, but who doesnt want to be wanted. "When it's missing and you want it more/ it isn't right/ Turning turning out the door and back to this/Leave it like it was before/ and let me out/ Must've been the end of the story" i agree that there is an existentialist tone to the song. 2: "Now the strangers have caught on/and they're riding in the back seat/ The rivers going to wash all/ Yeah, the river it spoke to me/ It told me I’m small/and I swallowed it down/ If I make it at all/ I'll make you want me" have you ever noticed when you have a mission, and you have to focus on someone or something thats when EVERYONE wants to come around and distract you, its like they smell the sent of strength, sadness, insanity, beauty, light. like ok when you are in a relationship, and no one paid you attention before, now you in one and folks want a piece, fuck that. just an example of the magnetic attraction. i say this because traditionally, in my practices the river is all that is feminine, Ochun, which brings sweetness like honey. she goes to river to drink, she wants some of the femininity, like she has to be a strong warrior all the time maybe she needed a bit of sweetness, or maybe she thought if she is sweeter that her interest will be with her. also to follow a river is to be off the beaten path or main road. 3; with the roads part. "travel it all away" same person traveled to the other side of the country to find themselves or something. but to me where ever you go, YOU are going to be right there. the road is going to end on you/ me, no matter where we go and the same issue will pop up unless we deal with whats inside, thats the fucking hard part right. 4: there seems to be like this inevitable sadness to the song, like we are strong, we try to avoid the main road as warriors, but maybe the road just might cross our path at some point, or maybe i will try to go on the road and be a warrior that way, i dont know. who knows. who really knows. essentially its about becoming a woman of independences.

No Picture brent Rhythm Player	#3 by brent west at Oct 10, 2007 at 12:54 AM EST
	and she means by "travel it all away... the road's gonna end on me." that there are too many problems, more problems than there are roads in the world.

No Picture Aaron Wanna Be	#4 by Aaron Frederick at Oct 10, 2007 at 2:34 PM EST
	The only remains of the fantastic fever to tell =( damn!! I get nostalgic everytime I hear it

No Picture jimmy Wanna Be	#5 by jimmy henry at Oct 12, 2007 at 10:16 AM EST
	For me anyway its about existence is general. How simply living on this planet wears you down. She's became a warrior through life's experience and she's just tired and exhausted and hardened as a result of it. My favourite yyy's song.

No Picture Max Wanna Be	#6 by Max Contreras at Oct 13, 2007 at 7:24 AM EST
	My new favorite Yeah Yeah Yeahs song.

No Picture Gary Wanna Be	#7 by Gary Rossington at Oct 13, 2007 at 7:51 AM EST
	it's just a song about escaping the troubles by running away but it never seems to work. she sees herself as a warrior because she thinks she gets stronger as she travels away from her troubles... at the end she says "dance the warrior" and when you're dancing often you take on a role of some one else (in a musical piece, in a play, etc), it's a way of showing how you feel or who yuo want to be, anyways, my opinion, everyone has their own... still a good song.

No Picture Francis Average	#8 by Francis Delongchamp at Oct 15, 2007 at 7:27 AM EST
	She dedicated this song to all the girls when I saw her live. And when she said 'warrior' she pounded her hand against her chest.

No Picture James Average	#9 by James Davison at Oct 19, 2007 at 4:24 PM EST
	first, i'd like to say that this is by far the best the yeah yeah yeahs have in my opinion. i'm not totally sure what it means, but i think it's an outcry from Karen O about how insane she has to be in her music/performances and how ppl expect a certain level from her everytime. but again, just my opinion.