Before lyrics

• You hid me in your dorm room
  It was Halloweekend, I just flew
  Across the globe, twenty-two hours just to see you
  Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed
  And talk about your cool new friend
  Who I never met
  Who you dated as soon as I left

  Carolina autumn
  It had been a year since I saw you, since we ended it
  Had a year to grow into the girl you always wanted, now we're
  Holding hands, as not quite friends, but not quite lovers
  But we'll just pretend
  You say, "It's complicated to make amends"
  Well, is that the way that we're headed then?

  And you couldn't answer me
  Though, you could pull me in while I brushed my teeth
  And let your hands both freely speak
  Like I wasn't ever gonna leave

  You were all I'd ever known
  And now I'm supposed to love you from a distance
  Like it's nothing, like it's instant
  And you say, "Let's just see where this goes"
  And I don't know how or why you seem just fine
  'Cause I'm having to grasp that you're somehow not mine anymore

  It's so cruel how things are only almost like they were before
  (Ah, ah, ah) Like they were before
  (Ah, ah, ah) Like they were before
  (Ah, ah, ah) Like they were before

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

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

  You were all I'd ever known
  And now I'm feeling stupid, you're forbidden
  They say, yeah, we were something, too bad we were children
  Ooh, I don't know where to go
  And I don't know how or why you seem just fine
  'Cause I'm looking at you and God knows you're not mine anymore

  It's so cruel how things will never be the way they were before
  Like they were before
  It's almost just like how it was before
  But it's not anymore

• Who is the author of the song Before?
  The song Before was written by NIKI.

• Who sings the song Before?
  The song Before is performed by NIKI.