Before

C                       G
Glittering lake under a splintering 
dock
        C                   F
I get a piece of it to take home
      C                       G
And I pick at the wood, under skin 
sunlight slip in
            C                F
And spin in new days while I [?]


[Pre-Chorus]
F                       C
In a moment I'll try to recapture
        F                     
Through mushrooms and speeding 
         G
through stop signs and bleeding
G                                
I wish there were things I never 
C       F
understood


[Chorus]
    G           C
The time before knowing
    G                   C         
The silence preceding a knock at 
   F
the door
    G                             
The light 'til shadows cast on me 
F
over and over again
F
How to be smaller again
   C
To pretend


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[Verse 2]
            C                 G
A beautiful wakе, I cried too long 
and too late
          C                    
After thе service, for the kids 
         F
running fast
            C              
Through the manicured lawn, 
              G
untouched by what had been lost
           C                    
Just for a moment, though I know 
       F
it'll pass


[Pre-Chorus]
G         F  C
Losing is so long
G                      F         
All my love stuck in a time that 
               C
will always be gone


[Chorus]
    G           C
The time before knowing
    G                   C         
The silence preceding a knock at 
   F
the door
    G                             
The light 'til shadows cast on me 
F
over and over again
F
How to be smaller again
C
To pretend


[Verse 3]
           C                  
Showing in spades, my father's 
  G
closeted rage
            C                     
Sixteen and spitting back all the 
F
unsaid
               C                   
He turned away and went silent, so 
G
appalled by the sight
       C                      F
Of all he had tried to put to rest


[Pre-Chorus]
F                        C
Though it is fleeting in theory
  F                C
A body remembers a notch in the wood
                 G            
Though I was too young to have 
 F        C
understood


[Chorus]
                  G          
The beauty in the time before 
 C
knowing
    G                    C         
The silence that I could afford to 
F
endure
    G                              
The light before shadow brought me 
  F
a comfort that I can ignore
F
I can't live in before
C
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