Sara Bareilles – Before I Knew Better (Guitar)

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Verse I.

C#	      Bbm		Ebm
  Don't know where to put you anymore

C#	      Bbm	     Ebm	G#
  You can't be kept inside my dresser drawer

	  C#	      Bbm		Ebm
I find the pieces of you in my dreams

	   Ebm Fm F#
And in the evenings

C#	    Bbm		Ebm
  Spill out the edge of my mind.

C#	      Bbm	     Ebm	G#
  Memories of you feel like they're miles wide

	  C#	    Bbm		Ebm
It's all I can do to get to the other side

	   Ebm Fm F#
Of these evenings

Chorus

		  C#			    G#
I'll see you tonight in the back of my mind

			Ebm			    G#
When I remember your skin like I remembered it then

		  		C#			G#
When you would dress me in white with the look in your eyes

			Ebm Ebm>F>F#
Knew you'd love me forever

		   C#   Bbm   Ebm
Before I ever knew better

C# Bbm Ebm Verse II. (do verse I chords) Can't see myself back beside you But I see nobody else Nobody's perfect but I'm perfectly happy to keep on Bringing this love down off the shelf. Chorus

		  C#			    G#
I'll see you tonight in the back of my mind

			Ebm			    G#
When I remember your skin like I remembered it then

		  		C#			G#
When you would dress me in white with the look in your eyes

			Ebm Ebm>F>F#
Knew you'd love me forever

Before I ever knew.. Bridge

G#		F#			C#			   G#
  Better off, I couldn't say if I'd be better off without a love I live without anyway

	  F#					C#
Better off, oooh. Who knows? See you tonight.

C# G# Ebm G# 4x

		   C#   Bbm   Ebm
Before I ever knew better

C# Bbm Ebm note: '>' here means slide... like Ebm>F>F#, it means from the chrord Ebm, you slide fingers to the next chord, which is F, then to the next chord, which is F#