Barenaked Ladies – The Old Apartment (Ukulele)

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[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