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