Before

Tom : C
C G
Glittering lake under a splintering dock
C F
I get a piece of it to take home
C G
And I pick at the wood, under skin sunlight slip in
C F
And spin in new days while I [?]

[Pre-Chorus]
F C
In a moment I'll try to recapture
F G
Through mushrooms and speeding through stop signs and bleeding
G C F
I wish there were things I never understood

[Chorus]
G C
The time before knowing
G C F
The silence preceding a knock at the door
G F
The light 'til shadows cast on me over and over again
F
How to be smaller again
C
To pretend

[Verse 2]
C G
A beautiful wakе, I cried too long and too late
C F
After thе service, for the kids running fast
C G
Through the manicured lawn, untouched by what had been lost
C F
Just for a moment, though I know it'll pass

[Pre-Chorus]
G F C
Losing is so long
G F C
All my love stuck in a time that will always be gone

[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
C G
Showing in spades, my father's closeted rage
C F
Sixteen and spitting back all the unsaid
C G
He turned away and went silent, so appalled by the sight
C F
Of all he had tried to put to rest

[Pre-Chorus]
F C
Though it is fleeting in theory
F C
A body remembers a notch in the wood
G F C
Though I was too young to have understood

[Chorus]
G C
The beauty in the time before knowing
G C F
The silence that I could afford to endure
G F
The light before shadow brought me a comfort that I can ignore
F
I can't live in before
C
Anymore