Before

    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
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                        Gm
And now I'm supposed to love you 
from a distance
          F
Like it's nothing, like it's instant
    Eb                             
And you say, "Let's just see where 
     Bb
this goes"
                     Cm
And I don't know how or why you seem
 just fine
            Gm                 
'Cause I'm havin' to grasp that 
                         Ab
you're somehow not mine anymore
 Gm                Eb             
It's so cruel how things are only 
                      Bb
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                            
Did anything ever really count, or 
F
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                    
'Cause I'm lookin' at you and God 
                        Ab
knows you're not mine anymore
Gm                    Eb         
It's so cruel how things will 
                            Bb
never be the way they were before


[Otro]

(Ah, ah, ah)
               Cm
Like they were before (Ah, ah, ah)
            Gm                  
It's almost just like how it was 
      Eb
before (Ah, ah, ah)
                    Bb
But it's not anymore