The Old Apartment Chords & Tabs
Capo on 3rd fret
G D Am7
Broke into the old apartment
G D Am7
This is where we used to live
G D Am7
Broken glass, broke and hungry
D G
Broken hearts and broken bones
G D Am7
This is where we used to live
Em D Am7
Why did you paint the walls?
Em D Am7
Why did you clean the floor?
Em D Am7 D G
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?
G D Am7
This is where we used to live
G D Am7
Why did you keep the mousetrap?
D G
Why did you keep the dishrack?
G D
these things used to be mine
Am7 D
I guess they still are, I want them back
G D Am7
Broke into the old apartment
G D Am7
Forty-two stairs from the street
G D Am7
Crooked landing, crooked landlord
D G
Narrow laneway filled with crooks
G D Am7
This is where we used to live
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Em D Am7
Why did they pave the lawn?
Em D Am7
why did they change the locks?
Em D Am7 D G
Why did I have to break it, I only came here to talk
G D Am7
This is where we used to live
G D Am7
How is the neighbor downstairs?
D G
How is her temper this year?
D Am7 D
I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun
Em D G Am7
I know we don't live here anymore
Em D G Am7
We bought an old house on the Danforth
Em D G Am7
She loves me and her body keeps me warm
Em D G
I'm happy here
G D Am7
But this is where we used to live
G D Am7
Broke into the old apartment
G D Am7
Tore the phone out of the wall
G D Am7 D G
Only memories, fading memories Blending into dull tableaux
G D Am7
I want them back
G D Am7 D G
I want them back. This is where we used live
G D Am7 D G
I want them back. This is where we used live
G D Am7 D G
I want them back. This is where we used live
G D Am7
I want them back
