Sara Bareilles

Before I Ever Knew Better

Sara Bareilles


Tom: Am

C             Am                Dm
  Don't know where to put you anymore
C             Am             Dm G
  You can't be kept inside my dresser drawer
          C           Am                Dm
I find the pieces of you in my dreams
           Dm Em F
And in the evenings

C           Am          Dm
  Spill out the edge of my mind.
C             Am             Dm G
  Memories of you feel like they're miles wide
          C         Am          Dm
It's all I can do to get to the other side
           Dm Em F
Of these evenings

Chorus
                  C                         G
I'll see you tonight in the back of my mind
                        Dm                          G
When I remember your skin like I remembered it then
                                C                       G
When you would dress me in white with the look in your eyes
                        Dm Dm E F
Knew you'd love me forever
                   C   Am   Dm
Before I ever knew better

C   Am   Dm

Verse II. 
C             Am           Dm
Can't see myself back beside you
C            Am          Dm
But I see nobody else
C             Am                  Dm
Nobody's perfect but I'm perfectly happy to keep on
Dm             Em                F
Bringing this love down off the shelf.

Chorus
                  C                         G
I'll see you tonight in the back of my mind
                        Dm                          G
When I remember your skin like I remembered it then
                                C                       G
When you would dress me in white with the look in your eyes
                        Dm Dm E F
Knew you'd love me forever

Before I ever knew..

Bridge
G               F                       C                          G
  Better off, I couldn't say if I'd be better off without a love I live without anyway
          F                                     C
Better off, oooh. Who knows? See you tonight.

C  G  Dm  G 4x

                   C   Am   Dm
Before I ever knew better
C   Am   Dm