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 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
[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
[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] [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
Outro
(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]
But it's not anymore
