Parquet Courts – Almost Had To Start A Fight - In And Out Of Patience (Guitar)

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Almost Had to Start a Fight [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