The Old Apartment Lyrics

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:45:50 -0500
From: MATTHEW MUCKLO
Cc: mmucklo@East.Sun.COM
Subject: PRO: 'The Old Apartment' by Barenaked Ladies
# This is a bit different than the versions already in olga (for
# starters, it's in ChordPro format so it can be printed in that nice
# postscript format).
#
# I've also interpreted the Refrain and the Bridge a bit differently,
# and I think more accurately. Check the 'Notes' section at the end of
# the song for more info.
#
# I used the live version off of 'Rock Spectacle' as a reference, but I
# don't think it and the original differ at all.
#
# feedback: mmucklo@east.sun.com
Broke into the old apartment.
This is where we used to live.
Broken glass, broke and hungry, broken hearts and
broken bones.
This is where we used to live.
Why did you paint the walls?
Why did you clean the floor?
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the
door? 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, I guess they still
are, I want 'm back.
Broke into the old apartment.
ad
Forty-two stairs from the street.
Crooked landing, crooked landlord, narrow landway
filled with
crooks. 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 it, I only came here to
talk. This is where we used to live.
How is the neighbor downstairs? How is her temper
this year? 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;
(and) I'm happy
here. But this is where we used to live.
Broke into the old apartment.
ad
Tore the phone out of the wall.
Only memories, fading memories blending into dull
tableaux. I want them back. (This is where we
used to live)
I want them back. (This is where we used to live)
I want them back. (This is where we used to live)
I want them back.
NOTES
Verse:
The verse chords are downstrokes on the first two beats of each
measure.
Refrain:
The first 10 measures are picked (through the third D chord), then
it starts strumming leading up to the G which is played like the
verse. The G D Cadd9 D sequence is then strummed.
Also in the refrain: on the CD I have, they almost seem to let the
Em chord ring out over the D, so you could probably just play the
Em chord for the first measure and let it ring until the C chord
of actually playing the D.
Bridge:
The bridge is picked like the refrain, one chord per measure. Note
that it is only 14 measures long, however.
Ending:
The 'I want them back' section is picked