"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
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 dish rack?
*mute* these things used to be mine, I guess they still are I want 'em back
broke into the old apartment
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 in? 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
(softly here, getting louder slowly after 2nd phrase, ending with hard strums on "I'm happy there"
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
I'm happy there
(normal volume now)
but this is where we used to live
broke into the old apartment
tore the phone out of the wall
only memories, faded memories blending into dull tableaux
