"This is the most honest I've ever been in a song. Before You is about the version of me that existed before love cracked me open — and I mean that in the best way. I was functional. I was fine. I had a life that looked like it was working. But I had built this entire architecture of distance between myself and anything that could really hurt me. And what I didn't understand at the time was that it was also keeping out anything that could really reach me. The piano starts alone on this track because that's where I was — just me, by myself, thinking I was whole."
