Chord Before - NIKI

[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 headed then?  
[Pre-Chorus 1]  
Eb  
And you couldn't answer me  
Gm  
Though you could pull me 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  

(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  

(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