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                              G
Through mushrooms and speeding through stop signs and bleeding
G                                C       F
I wish there were things I never understood


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


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


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


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


[Verse 3]
           C                    G
Showing in spades, my father's closeted rage
            C                     F
Sixteen and spitting back all the unsaid
               C                   G
He turned away and went silent, so 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             F        C
Though I was too young to have understood


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