Before (Acoustic Version)

Before (Spotify Singles) - NIKI
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
Well 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 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
Like they were before
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