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[Verse 1]
You hid [G]me in your dorm room
It was Halloweekend, I just flew
[Em]across the globe
Twenty-two hours hours just to see you
Just to [C]barely fit on your twin-sized bed
bed
And talk about your cool new friend
Who [D]I never met,

[Verse 2]
who you dated as soon as I left
[G]Carolina autumn
It had been a year since I saw you
Since we [Em]ended it
Had a year to grow into the
girl you always wanted
Now we're [C]holding hands
as not quite friends
But not quite lovers
Well, we'll just pretend
You say, [D]"It's complicated
to make amends"
Well, is that [Dsus4]the way that[D]
[Dsus4]we're headed [D]then?[C]

[Verse 3]
And you couldn't [C]answer me
Though you could [Em]pull me in
while I brushed my teeth
And [G]let your hands both freely speak
Like I wasn't [D]ever gonna leave, leave

[Verse 4]
[C]You were all I'd ever [G]known
And now I'm supposed to
[Em]love you from a distance
Like it's [D]nothing, like it's instant
And [C]you say,
"Let's just see where this [G]goes"
And I don't know how [Am]or
why you seem [Em]just fine
[Am]'Cause I'm having [Em]to grasp that
you're somehow not mine [F]anymore
It's [C]so cruel how things are only
almost like they were before
[G]

[Verse 5]
Like they were be[Am]fore
Like they were be[Em]fore
Like they were be[C]fore

[Verse 6]
[C]We [G]walk downtown and
it's charming
You're alarmingly disarming
Yeah, we've [C]got [Em]forty-eight
hours [C]hours [Em]left
Before I fly back to my death
While [C]you stay just fine and feel alive
South of the Mason-Dixon line
line
Where [G]everyone [Dsus4]closes shop at n[D]ine[G][D]
Where you could somehow finally find

[Verse 7]
[C]What you were desperately looking for
[Em]Funny how you thought that
was gonna be New York
With [G]our chalkboard walls
and slanted floors
[D]Oh, we could've had that
and so much more
[Em]Ask your new lover what
it's like to be given
A real [G]fighting chance before you wish her,
"Good riddance"
Did [C]anything ever really count
Or was [D]I just a two-year
practice practice round?

[Verse 8]
[C]You were all I'd ever [G]known
And now I'm feeling stu[Em]pid,
you're forbidden
They say, yeah, [D]we were something,
too bad we were children
[C]Ooh, I don't know where to [G]go
And I don't know how [Am]or
why you seem just fine
'Cause I'm [Em]looking at you and God
knows you're not mine [F]anymore
It's [C]so cruel how things will never
be the way they were be[G]fore

[Verse 9]
[G]Like they were be[Am]fore
It's almost [Em]just like how it was be[C]fore
But it's not anymore
[G]