• Song:

    The Old Apartment

  • Artist:

    Barenaked Ladies

  • Album:

    Extended Versions

Capo 3

G5      D5             C5
Broke into the old apartment
G5       D5                   C5
This is where we used to live
G5          D5                 C5     
Broken glass, broke and hungry
C5
Broken hearts and broken bones
G5       D5                   C5
This is where we used to live
E5   D5                  C5
Why did you paint the walls? 
E5   D5                  C5
Why did you clean the floor? 
E5    D5             C5  D5
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?
G5         D5                 C5
This is where we used to live
G5    D5                C5    
Why did you keep the mousetrap?
     D5                  G5
Why did you keep the dishrack?
              D5            
These things used to be mine
  C5                             D5  
I guess they still are, I want them back
G5      D5             C5  
Broke into the old apartment
G5      D5                    C5   
Forty-two stairs from the street
G5        D5                C5
Crooked landing, crooked landlord
       D5                   G5     
Narrow laneway filled with crooks.
G5        D5                 C5  
This is where we used to live.
E5   D5                   C5
Why did they pave the lawn? 
E5   D5                    C5
Why did they change the locks? 
E5   D5             C5      D5    
Why did I have to break it, I only came here to talk
G5        D5                C5   
This is where we used to live
G5     D5             C5      
How is the neighbor downstairs? 
      D5               G5
How is her temper this year? 
         D5              C5                         D5
I turned up your tv and stomped on the floor just for fun
E5  D5             G5          C5   
I know we don?t live here anymore
E5   D5            G5             C5 
We bought an old house on the danforth
E5   D5               G5              C5  
She loves me and her body keeps me warm
C5    D5       
I?m happy here
G5            D5                 C5
But this is where we used to live
G5      D5             C5    
Broke into the old apartment
G5       D5                 C5
Tore the phone out of the wall
G5      D5                C5 
Only memories, fading memories
           D5
Blending into dull tableaux
G5  D5          C5
I want them back
G5  D5          C5
I want them back
(This is where we used to live)
G5  D5          C5
I want them back
(This is where we used to live)
G5  D5         C5
I want them back
(This is where we used to live)
G5  D5         C5
I want them back!
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