Almost Had To Start A Fight - In And Out Of Patience chords by Parquet Courts

Intro:

G C B Bb x2

Verse 1:


G               C B  Bb
Almost, almost, almost, almost, almost had to start a fight

G                       C  B Bb
Don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know how to react so I won't

G                 C  B Bb
What do, what do, what do, what do you do when you are provoked?

G                          F     C
When does, when does, when does, when does, when does something stop being a joke?

G                     C B  Bb
Caught up, caught up, caught up, caught up in our morbid modern lives

G             C B  Bb
Adapt, adapt, adapt, adapt to the void then if you must

G           C  B Bb
Into, into, into, into this perverted status quo

G                      F     C       G
What if, what if, what if, what if I've grown tired of being polite?


Chorus 1:


N.C.               F C G
Why am I searching for reason?

N.C.               F C G
I'm in the chaos dimension

N.C.               F C G
Reason's eclipsed by tension


Verse 2:


G               C  B Bb
I want, I want, I want, I want not to feel numb about death

G                 C   B Bb
Finding, finding, finding, finding peace is not an easy task

G                     C B  Bb
Breathing, breathing, breathing, breathing to see if there's any left

G                    F     C        G
Reading, reading, reading, reading about how many people died and


Chorus 2:


N.C.                 F C G
Can't someone tell me the reason?

N.C.                 F C G
I'm in the chaos dimension

N.C.                 F C G
Trapped in a brutal invention


Transition Riff:


e|---------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------|
D|--5-5-5-3-----3------------------------------------|
A|----------5-5--5-----------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------|
(It's an octave lower with a low B string, but this is
how to do it on a standard six string)


F C G



In and Out of Patience

Chorus 1:


N.C.      G N.C.       G N.C.
If it stops I'm,  if it stops I'm,  if it stops I'm having a bad dream

Intro:

G C G x2
G Bb G G C G x3
G Bb G


Verse 1:

G       C G   G Bb G
In and out of patience

G           C G    G Bb G
I just can't keep it around

G          C G   G Bb G
Most of mine's been taken

G         C G   G Bb G
Is there a finite amount?

G       C G
Had a little left

    G       Bb G
(But I gave it to you)

G          C G
Now someone's at my door

G            Bb G
(And they need some too)

G       C G
Lighting up my phone

G         Bb G
(Darkening my mood)

G       C  G
And all I got left is

G  Bb  G    D
This shit attitude

D                  C
At least music is playing in my head

G

Chorus 2:


N.C.      G N.C.       G N.C.
If it stops I'm, if it stops I'm,  if it stops I'm having an unshakable nightmare

G C G x2
G Bb G G C G x3
G Bb G


Verse 2:


G       C G   G Bb G
In and out of patience

G           C G   G Bb G
Don't have enough to share

G           C G   G Bb G
Sometimes on life itself

G            C G  G Bb G
I'm neither here nor there

G   C G
The MTA

G           Bb G
(Took the first of it)

G        C  G
Twenty-minute delay

G            Bb G
(Wasn't the worst of it)

G      C   G
So hot underground

G            Bb G
(You could burn to death)

G          C  G      Bb G D
Now you're right on time to take what I got left

C
Funky music playing in my head

G


Chorus 3:

N.C.      G N.C.      G N.C.        Cm7     G
If it stops I'm,  if it stops I'm,  and if it stops I'm counting on you


Outro:

N.C.
This next's one called Freebird II