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🎸 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
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Chords: A, F#m, D, E, Bm, G