Before chords by Niki Niki

🎸 Verse 1:
   A
You hid me in your dorm room, it was Halloweekend
        F#m
I just flew across the globe, 22 hours just to see you
     D
Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed

And talk about your cool new friend
    E
Who I never met, who you dated as soon as I left



🎸 Verse 2:
A

Carolina autumn, it had been a year since I saw ya
     F#m
Since we ended it, had a year to grow into the girl you always wanted
      D
Now we're holding hands

As not quite friends, but not quite lovers
Well, we'll just pretend
        E
You say, "It's complicated to make amends"

Well, is that the way that we're head d, then?

🎸 Pre-Chorus 1:
D
 And you couldn't answer me
         F#m
Though you could pull m? in while I brushed my teeth
   A
And let your hands both freely speak
    E
Like I wasn't ever gonna leave

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

🎸 Post-Chorus:

(ah, ah, ah)
         Bm
Like they were before (Ah, ah, ah)
         F#m
Like they were before (Ah, ah, ah)
         D
Like they were before (Ah, ah, ah)

🎸 Verse 3:
  A
We walk downtown and it's charming

You're alarmingly disarming
      F#m
Yeah, we've got 48 hours left before I fly back to my death
      D
While you stay just fine and feel alive

South of the Mason-Dixon line
    E
Where everyone closes shop at 9

Where you could somehow finally find

🎸 Pre-Chorus 2:
D
 What you were desperately looking for
F#m
Funny how you thought that was gonna be New York
      A
With our chalkboard walls and slanted floors
E
Oh, we could've had that and so much more
F#m
Ask your new lover what it's like to be given
  A
A real fighting chance before you wish her, "Good riddance"
   D               E
Did anything ever really count, or was I just a two-year practice round?

🎸 Chorus:
D            A
You were all I'd ever known
           F#m
And now I'm feeling stupid, you're forbidden
E
They say yeah we were something, too bad we were children
D             A
Oh
I don't know where to go
           Bm
And I don't know how or why you seem just fine
      F#m                     G
'Cause I'm lookin' at you and God knows you're not mine anymore
F#m        D                    A
It's so cruel how things will never be the way they were before

🎸 Outro:

(Ah, ah, ah)
         Bm
Like they were before (Ah, ah, ah)
      F#m           D
It's almost just like how it was before (Ah, ah, ah)
           A
But it's not anymore