Old Appartment

Barenaked Ladies

Tom: B

 
B       F#          E 
Broke into the old apartment 
B       F#          E 
This is where we used to live 
B       F#              E 
Broken glass, broke and hungry 
E 
Broken hearts and broken bones 
B       F#               E 
This is where we used to live 
B   F#                E 
Why did you paint the walls? 
B   F#                E 
Why did you clean the floor? 
B   F#              E                                 B 
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door? 
B       F#               E 
This is where we used to live 
B   F#               E 
Why did you keep the mousetrap? 
B   F#               E 
Why did you keep the dishrack? 
B            F# 
These things used to be mine 
  E                                B 
I guess they still are, I want em? back 
B       F#          E 
Broke into the old apartment 
B         F#              E       B 
Forty-two stairs from the street 
        F#               E 
Crooked landing, crooked landlord 
                           B 
Narrow laneway filled with crooks 
        F#               E 
This is where we used to live 
B   F#                E 
Why did they pave the lawn? 
B   F#                  E 
Why did they change the locks? 
B   F#            E                             B 
Why did I have to break in, I only came here to talk 
B       F#               E 
This is where we used to live 
B   F#              E 
How is the neighbor downstairs? 
B   F#              E 
How is her temper this year? 
B        F#               E                           B 
I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun 
B F#            E 
I know we don't live here anymore 
B  F#            E 
We bought an old house on the Danforth 
B   F#           E 
She loves me and her body keeps me warm 
B   F#    E 
I'm happy there 
E                                 B 
But this is where we used to live 
        F#          E 
Broke into the old apartment 
B        F#               E 
Tore the phone out of the wall 
B    F#               E 
Only memories, fading memories 
E 
Blending into dull tableaux 
B F#        E 
I want them back