Guns N' Roses - Patience
Time: 2:18
If I can't have you right now, I'll wait, dear
Sometimes, I get so tense but I can't speed up the time
But you know, love, there's one more thing to consider

tighten; a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
Heard in 62 songs (2871M+ combined views) — most famously in "Patience" by Guns N' Roses.
Updated July 31, 2026
Time: 2:18
If I can't have you right now, I'll wait, dear
Sometimes, I get so tense but I can't speed up the time
But you know, love, there's one more thing to consider

Time: 3:36
Sexy body shape and yuh full of body curves
Mek mi body tense to a rise up in there
Long time yuh lookin', you fi listen my word
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Time: 2:57
Fame hooker, prostitute, wench vomits her mind
But in the cultural sense, I just speak in future tense
Judas, kiss me if offensed, or wear ear condom next time

Time: 2:27
But you the first one I holler to right after my shows
And I was trippin' in a sense, I was tense
But my body loose around you, what I'ma do without you?

Time: 0:38
My sister and my friends
I told the others, my lovers both past and present tense
Every time I see you, everything starts making sense (do your thing, honey!)

Time: 0:33
You just wanna ball out in designer with your best friends
You don't wanna talk no more about it in the past tense
Get me out my zone, I'm just talking comfort, shawty

Time: 3:41
If it makes you feel bad
Seeing me so tense
No self-confidence, but you see

Time: 1:18
And I kick a few flows so I could pick a few hos (a few hos)
Excellence is my presence, never tense
Never hesitant, leave a nigga bent real quick

Time: 0:57
Hit it, then I'm gone, don't let you get attached here
Had a nigga who can't handle you, so now we past tense
Tryna spend it on you, baby, that's what all that ass get

Time: 0:30
♪
Sometimes the wire must tense for the note
♪

Time: 1:36
The world is shutting out for us
Oh, we were tense for sure
But we was confident
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Time: 0:23
I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
I can't sleep, 'cause my bed's on fire

Time: 0:51
Forget the past
Present tense works and lasts
Got shit on, pissed on, spit on, stepped on

Time: 0:08
Mike WiLL Made-It
Past tense futuristic, they'll never get it
I wished for this not knowing what it'd be worth by the time I get it

Time: 1:41
When I was behind the fence they treated me like a prince
So much jewelry on, her pussy gettin' tense
1017's the ones you don't wanna diss

Time: 1:07
I remember that I told you I miss you, that was kinda like a mass text
I remember that I told I loved you, that was really in the past tense
I remember that I told you I get your true fears, that I get around

Time: 1:00
Now she's sendin' you some pictures wearin' less and less
Tryna turn the past into the present tense, huh
Suckin' up to all of your mutual friends

Time: 2:19
No knowledge, couldn't see through the piles of my problems
Still piled up, past tense, man, I wish it was, but I've come
So far so quickly

Time: 3:00
All you need is happy thoughts
The past tense, past bed time
Way back then when everything we read was real

Time: 2:01
You don't really fret, you stay in your sense
Comafied your feeling, of absolute tense
You soar off to another world, deep in your mind

Time: 1:13
I know that gutter shit run through my flesh (I know that)
Don't speak on my fam 'cause it'll get tense
Hoe leakin' my name, I might get her spint

Time: 0:32
When you're coming up to speak
And, oh, I'm so tense, never tenser
Could all go a bit Frank Spencer

Time: 0:14
Eating everything, nigga, no fasting
I don't care how much you knew me in the past tense
I ain't no Julia Stiles, this ain't no last dance

Time: 0:51
So, there'll be
No more smoking and feeling tense
When I see them a-come

Time: 1:04
A Carolina, bear in mind, we never had shit
But now the GOAT is from this bitch, so all that's past tense
We gas shit, nigga

Time: 0:16
Listen
I know it's past tense
It's been a minute since

Time: 2:42
Where life has dealt another losing hand (ah)
You bite your tongue and tense your thighs to stand (ah)
You know that you can't be so strong alone all the time, so

Time: 2:11
Freedom's gone, but we'll always have a choice
My present future tense, it doesn't make much sense
I'm coming after you

Time: 3:15
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present
tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage,

Time: 0:41
And the surge of adrenaline
Every muscle tense to fence the enemy within
I'm not giving in to security under pressure

Time: 0:28
Coppin' shit you can't afford, hundred K right on my necklace (Yeah)
I be calling your bitch when I'm bored, do that in the past tense (Whoa)
I be drippin' and swaggin' of course (Woo), ayy

Time: 1:24
♪
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense
♪

Time: 4:17
In a method of modern love
At present tense has no time behind
It don't fall for the same whole life

Time: 4:08
These thoughts I have, I can't mold to sense
Through the forest of my mind, they're all past tense
Born and raised in the outer lands

Time: 1:59
I still wife her up even with her flat chest
The type to get hurt, but that's the past tense
My mind is all hazy, hazy, hazy, hazy

Time: 1:01
You've got a lot of curves past your gate
Life in the future tense is so much weight
Space is the emptiness, nothingness, between two things

Time: 1:49
Oh, won't you stay? We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses
When the curtain closes and the rainbow runs away

Time: 0:27
I'm struggling to find the right words
What I've felt is past tense
What I feel you just haven't heard

Time: 1:38
In my livin' room watchin', but I am not laughin'
'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen
The war is cold, the bold men take action

Time: 0:11
It's starting to give
Past, present tense
Our memories split

Time: 0:52
Since you're gone, I stumble in the shade
Since you're gone, everything's in perfect tense, well
I can't help it when you fall apart

Time: 2:03
Tyler, here's some water man
You seem a little tense. how is Thebe?
All because a nigga just don't give a fuck

Time: 0:55
She knows that back in the days pon di ends
Situation used to make the wise girl tense
That's when she hear 'bout me and her girlfriends

Time: 1:09
(The nurses were found stabbed) all is calm (and strangled in their Chicago apartment)
(In Washington, the atmosphere was tense today) all is bright (as a special subcommittee)
(Of the House Committee on Un-American Activities)

Time: 2:45
Caught in on the spotlight
Running out of present tense
Ha-ha ha-ha ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Time: 3:21
I don't want what I did
I had a change of tense
But maybe someday

Time: 0:05
Only with you by my side (side, side, side)
Yeah, lookin' back in the past, that shit was bad, I mean past tense
You get lit and burn bridges, and it ain't the last ditch

Time: 1:32
I'm calling a foul and once again it counts
Mad tense mad tense brothers know
The blunts in the back got the black behind and that's wack

Time: 0:54
Ah, fear, fear, she's the mother of violence
Making me tense to watch the way she breed
Fear, she's the mother of violence

Time: 0:04
Well, my nerves are exploding and my body's tense
I feel like the whole world got me pinned up against the fence

Time: 0:04
The Russians, the Americans, the British and the French
They're carving up the world again, it's getting kind of tense
A whole lotta posture and very little sense

Time: 2:59
The times [?] tension
Those tense times
Crime pays quicker

Time: 0:59
Waiting until I come to my senses
Better put it all in present tenses
Little triggers that you pull with your tongue

Time: 0:51
Different toilet, same shit... and I drank a whole gallon of laxatives by accident just to shit on you has-beens
Had it been for my past tense, I wouldn't be rapping
See these streets made me, broke me down

Time: 2:12
Life ain't nothin' but a piece of existence
'Cause when you die, you'se a past tense (party)
So I like to live my life like a big carnival

Time: 2:16
Can you see the light like common sense?
But to my defense, that way of thinkin' past tense
Life's a bitch and shit can get screwed

Time: 0:28
I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurtin' feeling

Time: 1:23
Don't sit on the fence
Live in past tense
Holding on to wishes and words

Time: 1:49
Bad Lieutenant, you I been rhymin' since
The fuckin' past tense, fuck no delayin'
Or playin' taking your wing way back in the day of yo

Time: 1:59
But what about the emails you hacked in?
I know we hate to live in the past tense
It's been weird since I went out west

Time: 2:47
Homicide questioning while the Jakes guard the door
My hood stay tense, loyalty puts strength in my team
'Cause niggaz main concerns scream

Time: 1:48
Pretty lady, won't you take me home tonight?
My arms are heavy, my body's tense
Got the hot's for this honey named Confidence
