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Niki (Nicole Zefanya)
Niki (Nicole Zefanya)

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4.3 (6)
Verse 1
G

You hid me in your dorm room

It was Halloweekend, I just flew
Em

across the globe

Twenty-two hours hours just to see you
C

Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed

bed

And talk about your cool new friend
D

Who I never met,
Verse 2

who you dated as soon as I left
G

Carolina autumn

It had been a year since I saw you
Em

Since we ended it

Had a year to grow into the

girl you always wanted
C

Now we're holding hands

as not quite friends

But not quite lovers

Well, we'll just pretend
D

You say, "It's complicated

to make amends"
Dsus4
D

Well, is that the way that
Dsus4
D
C

we're headed then?
Verse 3
C

And you couldn't answer me
Em

Though you could pull me in

while I brushed my teeth
G

And let your hands both freely speak
D

Like I wasn't ever gonna leave, leave
Verse 4

C
G

You were all I'd ever known

And now I'm supposed to
Em

love you from a distance
D

Like it's nothing, like it's instant
C

And you say,
G

"Let's just see where this goes"
Am

And I don't know how or
Em

why you seem just fine
Am
Em

'Cause I'm having to grasp that
F

you're somehow not mine anymore
C

It's so cruel how things are only

almost like they were before
G
Verse 5
Am

Like they were before
Em

Like they were before
C

Like they were before
Verse 6
C
G

We walk downtown and

it's charming

You're alarmingly disarming
C
Em

Yeah, we've got forty-eight
C
Em

hours hours left

Before I fly back to my death
C

While you stay just fine and feel alive

South of the Mason-Dixon line

line
G
Dsus4
D
G
D

Where everyone closes shop at nine

Where you could somehow finally find
Verse 7
C

What you were desperately looking for
Em

Funny how you thought that

was gonna be New York
G

With our chalkboard walls

and slanted floors
D

Oh, we could've had that

and so much more
Em

Ask your new lover what

it's like to be given
G

A real fighting chance before you wish her,

"Good riddance"
C

Did anything ever really count
D

Or was I just a two-year

practice practice round?
Verse 8
C
G

You were all I'd ever known
Em

And now I'm feeling stupid,

you're forbidden
D

They say, yeah, we were something,

too bad we were children
C
G

Ooh, I don't know where to go
Am

And I don't know how or

why you seem just fine
Em

'Cause I'm looking at you and God
F

knows you're not mine anymore
C

It's so cruel how things will never
G

be the way they were before
Verse 9
G
Am

Like they were before
Em
C

It's almost just like how it was before

But it's not anymore
G

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  • Em

  • C

  • D

  • Dsus4

  • Am

  • F

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