The Old Apartment

Chords

Standard

Verse 1:

G       D              Cadd9  
Broke into the old apartment.  
G       D                Cadd9
This is where we used to live.      
G      D             Cadd9       Cadd9
Broken glass, broke and hungry, broken hearts and
       G
broken bones.
G       D               Cadd9
This is where we used to live.    

Refrain:

Em  D                  C
Why did you paint the walls?
Em  D                  C
Why did you clean the floor?
Em  D                C         D                   G
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?
        D                Cadd9
This is where we used to live.       
G    D               Cadd9               D           G
Why did you keep the mousetrap, why did you keep the dishrack?
             D                   Cadd9
These things used to be mine, I guess they still are,
          D
I want 'm back.

Verse 2:

G       D              Cadd9  
Broke into the old apartment.  
G      D                  Cadd9
Forty-two stairs from the street.      
G       D                  Cadd9           Cadd9               G
Crooked landing, crooked landlord, narrow landway filled with crooks.
G       D                Cadd9
This is where we used to live.        

Refrain:

Em  D                  C
Why did they pave the lawn?
Em  D                   C
Why did they change the locks?
Em  D              C           D                G
Why did I have to break it, I only came here to talk.
        D                Cadd9
This is where we used to live.       
G   D               Cadd9           D                G
How is the neighbor downstairs?  How is her temper this year?
          D              Cadd9
I turned up your tv and stomped on the floor
         D
just for fun.


Bridge:

Em D            G             C
I know we don't live here anymore.
C  D              G               C
We bought an old house on the danforth.
Em  D                G              C
She loves me and her body keeps me warm;
C       D      G
(and) I'm happy here.

    G       D                Cadd9
But this is where we used to live.       


Verse 3:

G       D              Cadd9  
Broke into the old apartment.   
G         D              Cadd9  
Tore the phone out of the wall.     
G     D                  Cadd9        Cadd9          G
Only memories, fading memories blending into dull tableaux.

  D          Cadd9
I want them back.
(This is where we used to live)
G D          Cadd9
I want them back.   
(This is where we used to live)
G D          Cadd9
I want them back.   
(This is where we used to live)
G D         Cadd9      G
I want them back.