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Verse 1:
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.
Refrain:
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 dishrack?
These things used to be mine, I guess they still are,
I want 'm back.
Verse 2:
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.
Refrain:
Why did they pave the lawn?
Why did they change the locks?
Why did I have to break it, 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.
Bridge:
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;
(and) I'm happy here.
But this is where we used to live.
Verse 3:
Broke into the old apartment.
Tore the phone out of the wall.
Only memories, fading memories blending into dull tableaux.
I want them back.
(This is where we used to live)
I want them back.
(This is where we used to live)
I want them back.
(This is where we used to live)
I want them back.
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About this song: The Old Apartment
It's not a pop song. It's not written in your textbook hit song format. No, this great song speaks volumes of a typical relationship, and all of the memories tied into a space. It gives you a peak into the past, and shows where he's at in the present. But the great imagery and the flow of the song makes it latch onto your subconscious, and you find yourself repeating "I want them back"... Definitely reaches out to someone who has lived in an apartment or rooming house, whether in college or the real world.
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