Before [Single Edit]

[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]

The telephone's not answered

So many times you'll call

For many different reasons

So many tears will fall

[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]

Before you find your love

Before it comes knocking at your door

Before you know for sure

This is what you were waiting for

[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]

So many fears will haunt you

Deny them or regret

Some men will make you want to

And you will not forget

[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]

Before you find your love

Before it comes knocking at your door

Before you know for sure

This is what you were waiting for

[Post-Chorus 1: Neil Tennant, (Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod)]

There's a story of a man who loved too much

He ended up inside a prison cell

You've got to want to give to get it

Or you could land up in the same suspicious hell

It's happened before (Before, before, before)

It's happened before (Before, before)

[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]

Coincidence and patience

Will mend this fatal flaw

Though it may seem a long wait

Others have been here

[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]

Before you find your love

Before it comes knocking at your door

Before you know for sure

This is what you were waiting for

[Post-Chorus 2: Neil Tennant, (Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod)]

One day when the phone starts ringing

You'll answer to the words you're longing for

No tears, no trade, no prison cell

Whatever you need, he will return more

It's happened before (Before, before, before)

It's happened before (Before, before)

[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]

You find your love

Before it comes knocking at your door

Before you know for sure

This is what you were waiting for

You find your love

Before it comes knocking at your door

Before you know for sure

This is what you were waiting for

[Outro: Neil Tennant, (Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod)]

It's happened before (Before, before, before)

It's happened before (Before, before)