"The Old Apartment"
BNL
from "Barenaked Ladies Rock Spectacle"

This song isn't much trouble, with the help of a piano playing
aquaintance we worked it up, and pretty much by ear and memory, here's
the extent of it.

capo 3rd fret

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broke into the old apartment
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this is where we used to live
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broken glass, broke and hungry, broken hearts and broken bones
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this is where we used to live
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why did you paint the walls?
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why did you clean the floor?
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why did you plaster over, the hole I punched in the door?
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this is where we used to live
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why did you keep the mousetrap?
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why did you keep the dish rack?
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*mute*
these things used to be mine, I guess they still are I want 'em back

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broke into the old apartment
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forty-two stairs from the street
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crooked landing, crooked landlord, narrow landway filled with crooks
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this is where we used to live
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why did they pave the lawn?
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why did they change the locks?
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why did I have to break in? I only came here to talk
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this is where we used to live
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how is the neighbor downstairs?
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how is her temper this year?
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I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun

(softly here, getting louder slowly after 2nd phrase, ending with hard
strums on "I'm happy there"

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I know we don't live here anymore
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we bought an old house on the danforth
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she loves me and her body keeps me warm
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I'm happy there

(normal volume now)

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but this is where we used to live

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broke into the old apartment
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tore the phone out of the wall
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only memories, faded memories blending into dull tableaux
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i want them back.. this is where we used to live
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i want them back.. this is where we used to live
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i want them back..

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