ARTIST: Barenaked Ladies
SONG: The Old Apartment
TABBED BY: Kenneth Peng
http://smashinggrapes.cjb.net

CAPO ON 3rd FRET


G       D            C         G
broke into the old apartment
D                    C       G
this is where we used to live
D                 C
broken glass, broke and hungry
C          C           G
broken hearts and broken bones
D                 C
this is where we used to live

why did you paint the walls

why did you clean the floor

why did you plaster over
G
the hole i punched in the door
D                C
this is where we used to live

why did you keep the mousetrap

why did you keep the dishrack

these things used to be mine
G
i guess they still are, i want 'em back
D               C      G
broke into the old apartment
D                     C       G
forty-two stairs from the street
D                C
crooked landing, crooked landlord
C         C          G
narrow landway filled with crooks
D                C
this is where we used to live

why did they pave the lawn

why did they change the locks

why did i have to break in
G
i only came here to talk
D               C        G
this is where we used to live
D                  C
how is the neighbor downstairs
C         C          G
how is her temper this year
D                 C
i turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun

i know we don't live here anymore

we bought an old house on the danforth

she loves me and her body keeps me warm
G
and i'm happy here
D                C        G
but this is where we used to live
D              C                G
broke into the old apartment
D               C            G
tore the phone out of the wall
D                 C
only memories, fading memories
C      C       G
blending into dull tableaux
D         C
i want them back.