Song: Before You're Here
Artist: Kevin Devine
Album: Instigator
Tuning: Eb
Chord Forms:
A Am F G Dm Bb C OR C
eb|---------------------------------|
Bb|-----------------7---------------|
Gb|-----6-----------8-------6-------|
Db|-8---8---4---6---8---9---6----11-|
Ab|-8---8---4---6---6---9---4----11-|
Eb|-6---6---2---4-------7--------9--|
[Intro]
eb|---------------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------------|
Gb|-4/6-6---6-8---------6-----------------|
Db|-------8-------9-8-9-----8-6-8-9--8-6--|
Ab|---------------------------------------|
Eb|---------------------------------------|
eb|---------------------------------------|
Bb|---------------------------------------|
Gb|-4/6-6---6-8b---------6----------------|
Db|-------8--------9-8-9-----8-6-8-9--8-6-|
Ab|---------------------------------------|
Eb|---------------------------------------|
A F
Watch your mother in the ocean
G Dm
Hopeful doubts and freckled face
A Bb
The nurses call "Congratulations!"
G C
So now you're both alive on every wave
F Dm Bb C
I love you before // you're even here
Am Bb C
You're even here // with me
F Dm Bb C
I love you before // I've seen your face
Am Bb C
Know what your name // will be
A F
Fear of death have me psychotic
G Dm
Setting traps and daring fate
A Bb
Obsessive skeptical neurotic
G C
It all just seems ridiculous today
F Dm Bb C
I love you before // you're even here
Am Bb C
You're even here // with me
F Dm Bb C
I love you before // I've seen your face
Am Bb C
Know what your name // will be
Bb
There isn't any offer
F C Dm
I could picture as sweeter
Bb F
No need to lighten the frame
Bb
There's nothing insubstantial
F C Dm
Or cliche about a feeling
Bb F C
Or being open this way
eb|--------------------------------------------|
Bb|--------------------------------------------|
Gb|-4/6-6---6-8---------6----------------------|
Db|-------8-------9-8-9-----8-6-8-9--8-6-------|
Ab|--------------------------------------------|
Eb|--------------------------------------------|
eb|--------------------------------------------|
Bb|--------------------------------------------|
Gb|-4/6-6---6-8b---------6----------------8/10-|
Db|-------8--------9-8-9-----8-6-8-9--8-6------|
Ab|--------------------------------------------|
Eb|--------------------------------------------|
Bb
There isn't any offer
F C Dm
I could picture as sweeter
Bb F
No need to lighten the frame
Bb
There's nothing insubstantial
F C Dm
Or cliche about a feeling
Bb F C
Or being open this way
F Dm Bb C
Am Bb C
F Dm Bb C
I love you before // you're even here
Am Bb C
You're even here // with me
F Dm Bb C
I love you before // I've seen your face
Am Bb C F
Know what your name // will be