before chords by
Niki (Nicole Zefanya)

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Key: Bb major

Verse 1
G G 
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You hid me in your dorm room
It was Halloweekend, I just flew
Em Em 
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across the globe
Twenty-two hours hours just to see you
C C 
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Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed
bed
And talk about your cool new friend
D D 
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Who I never met,

Verse 2
who you dated as soon as I left
G G 
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Carolina autumn
It had been a year since I saw you
Em Em 
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Since we ended it
Had a year to grow into the
girl you always wanted
C C 
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Now we're holding hands
as not quite friends
But not quite lovers
Well, we'll just pretend
D D 
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You say, "It's complicated
to make amends"
Dsus4 Dsus4 
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D D 
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Well, is that the      way that
Dsus4 Dsus4 
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D D 
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C C 
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we're headed then?

Verse 3
C C 
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And you couldn't answer me
Em Em 
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Though you could pull me in
while I brushed my teeth
G G 
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And let your hands both freely speak
D D 
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Like I wasn't ever gonna leave, leave

Verse 4
C C 
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G G 
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You were all I'd ever known
And now I'm supposed to
Em Em 
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love you from a distance
D D 
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Like it's nothing, like it's instant
C C 
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And you say,
G G 
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"Let's just see where this goes"
Am Am 
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And I don't know how or
Em Em 
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why you seem just fine
Am Am 
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Em Em 
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'Cause I'm having to grasp that
F F 
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you're somehow not mine anymore
C C 
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It's so cruel how things are only
almost like they were before
G G 
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Verse 5

Am

Like they were before

Em

Like they were before

C

Like they were before

Verse 6
C C 
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G G 
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We walk downtown and
it's charming
You're alarmingly disarming
C C 
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Em Em 
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Yeah, we've got forty-eight
C C 
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Em Em 
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hours hours left
Before I fly back to my death
C C 
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While you stay just fine and feel alive
South of the Mason-Dixon line
line
G G 
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Dsus4 Dsus4 
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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Where everyone closes shop at nine
Where you could somehow finally find

Verse 7
C C 
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What you were desperately looking for
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Funny how you thought that
was gonna be New York
G G 
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With our chalkboard walls
and slanted floors
D D 
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Oh, we could've had that
and so much more
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Ask your new lover what
it's like to be given
G G 
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A real fighting chance before you wish her,
"Good riddance"
C C 
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Did anything ever really count
D D 
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Or was I  just a two-year
practice practice round?

Verse 8
C C 
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G G 
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You were all I'd ever known
Em Em 
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And now I'm feeling stupid,
you're forbidden
D D 
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They say, yeah, we were something,
too bad we were children
C C 
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G G 
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Ooh, I don't know where to go
Am Am 
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And I don't know how or
why you seem just fine
Em Em 
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'Cause I'm looking at you and God
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knows you're not mine anymore
C C 
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It's so cruel how things will never
G G 
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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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