before chords by 
Niki (Nicole Zefanya) 
Key: Bb major•
Verse 1
Bb
You hid me in your dorm room
It was Halloweekend, I just flew
Gm
across the globe
Twenty-two hours hours just to see you
Eb
Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed
bed
And talk about your cool new friend
F
Who I never met,
Verse 2
who you dated as soon as I left
Bb
Carolina autumn
It had been a year since I saw you
Gm
Since we ended it
Had a year to grow into the
girl you always wanted
Eb
Now we're holding hands
as not quite friends
But not quite lovers
Well, we'll just pretend
F
You say, "It's complicated
to make amends"
Fsus4
F
Well, is that the way that
Fsus4
F
Eb
we're headed then?
Verse 3
Eb
And you couldn't answer me
Gm
Though you could pull me in
while I brushed my teeth
Bb
And let your hands both freely speak
F
Like I wasn't ever gonna leave, leave
Verse 4
Eb
Bb
You were all I'd ever known
And now I'm supposed to
Gm
love you from a distance
F
Like it's nothing, like it's instant
Eb
And you say,
Bb
"Let's just see where this goes"
Cm
And I don't know how or
Gm
why you seem just fine
Cm
Gm
'Cause I'm hav ing to grasp that
Ab
you're somehow not mine anymore
Eb
It's so cruel how things are only
almost like they were before
Bb
Verse 5
Cm
Like they were be fore
Gm
Like they were be fore
Eb
Like they were be fore
Verse 6
Eb
Bb
We walk downtown and
it's charming
You're alarmingly disarming
Eb
Gm
Yeah, we've got forty-eight
Eb
Gm
hours hours left
Before I fly back to my death
Eb
While you stay just fine and feel alive
South of the Mason-Dixon line
line
Bb
Fsus4
F
Bb
F
Where everyone closes shop at nine
Where you could somehow finally find
Verse 7
Eb
What you were desperately looking for
Gm
Funny how you thought that
was gonna be New York
Bb
With our chalkboard walls
and slanted floors
F
Oh, we could've had that
and so much more
Gm
Ask your new lover what
it's like to be given
Bb
A real fighting chance before you wish her,
"Good riddance"
Eb
Did anything ever really count
F
Or was I just a two-year
practice practice round?
Verse 8
Eb
Bb
You were all I'd ever known
Gm
And now I'm feeling stu pid,
you're forbidden
F
They say, yeah, we were something,
too bad we were children
Eb
Bb
Ooh, I don't know where to go
Cm
And I don't know how or
why you seem just fine
Gm
'Cause I'm look ing at you and God
Ab
knows you're not mine anymore
Eb
It's so cruel how things will never
Bb
be the way they were be fore
Verse 9
Bb
Cm
Like they were be fore
Gm
Eb
It's almost just like how it was be fore
But it's not anymore
Bb
TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb Gm Eb F Fsus4...
Bb
Gm
Eb
F
Fsus4
Cm
Ab
Capo: 3
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