NIKI (Nicole Zefanya) – Before (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
    Bb
You hid me in your dorm room, it was Halloweekend

              Gm
I just flew across the globe, 22 hours just to see you

        Eb
Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed
And talk about your cool new friend
      F
Who I never met, who you dated as soon as I left
[Verse 2]
Bb
Carolina autumn, it had been a year since I saw ya

         Gm
Since we ended it, had a year to grow into the girl you always wanted

          Eb
Now we're holding hands
As not quite friends, but not quite lovers Well, we'll just pretend
               F
You say, "It's complicated to make amends"
Well, is that the way that we're headеd, then? [Pre-Chorus 1]
Eb
And you couldn't answer me

                 Gm
Though you could pull mе in while I brushed my teeth

    Bb
And let your hands both freely speak

       F
Like I wasn't ever gonna leave
[Chorus]
Eb                    Bb
You were all I'd ever known

                        Gm
And now I'm supposed to love you from a distance

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

    Eb                                  Bb
And you say, "Let's just see where this goes"

                     Cm
And I don't know how or why you seem just fine

            Gm                                          Ab
'Cause I'm havin' to grasp that you're somehow not mine anymore

 Gm                Eb                                   Bb
It's so cruel how things are only almost like they were before
[Post] (Ah, ah, ah)
               Cm
Like they were before (Ah, ah, ah)

               Gm
Like they were before (Ah, ah, ah)

               Eb
Like they were before (Ah, ah, ah)
[Verse 3]
Bb
We walk downtown and it's charming
You're alarmingly disarming
            Gm
Yeah, we've got 48 hours left before I fly back to my death

          Eb
While you stay just fine and feel alive
South of the Mason-Dixon line
      F
Where everyone closes shop at 9
Where you could somehow finally find [Pre-Chorus 2]
Eb
What you were desperately looking for

 Gm
Funny how you thought that was gonna be New York

           Bb
With our chalkboard walls and slanted floors

F
Oh, we could've had that and so much more

Gm
Ask your new lover what it's like to be given

  Bb
A real fighting chance before you wish her, "Good riddance"

     Eb                            F
Did anything ever really count, or was I just a two-year practice round?
[Chorus]
Eb                    Bb
You were all I'd ever known

                     Gm
And now I'm feeling stupid, you're forbidden

              F
They say yeah we were something, too bad we were children

Eb                        Bb
Oh, I don't know where to go

                     Cm
And I don't know how or why you seem just fine

           Gm                                            Ab
'Cause I'm lookin' at you and God knows you're not mine anymore

Gm                    Eb                                     Bb
It's so cruel how things will never be the way they were before
[Outro] (Ah, ah, ah)
               Cm
Like they were before (Ah, ah, ah)

            Gm                        Eb
It's almost just like how it was before (Ah, ah, ah)

                    Bb
But it's not anymore