Key: B
Introduction:
B F# E
Broke into the old apartment
B F# E
This is where we used to live
B F# E
Broken glass, broke and hungry
E
Broken hearts and broken bones
B F# E
This is where we used to live
B F# E
Why did you paint the walls?
B F# E
Why did you clean the floor?
B F# E B
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?
B F# E
This is where we used to live
B F# E
Why did you keep the mousetrap?
B F# E
Why did you keep the dishrack?
B F#
These things used to be mine
E B
I guess they still are, I want em? back
B F# E
Broke into the old apartment
B F# E B
Forty-two stairs from the street
F# E
Crooked landing, crooked landlord
B
Narrow laneway filled with crooks
F# E
This is where we used to live
B F# E
Why did they pave the lawn?
B F# E
Why did they change the locks?
B F# E B
Why did I have to break in, I only came here to talk
B F# E
This is where we used to live
B F# E
How is the neighbor downstairs?
B F# E
How is her temper this year?
B F# E B
I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun
B F# E
I know we don't live here anymore
B F# E
We bought an old house on the Danforth
B F# E
She loves me and her body keeps me warm
B F# E
I'm happy there
E B
But this is where we used to live
F# E
Broke into the old apartment
B F# E
Tore the phone out of the wall
B F# E
Only memories, fading memories
E
Blending into dull tableaux
B F# E
I want them back