Lyrics for Old Apartment as interpreted by ojms

Old Apartment Lyrics
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 dishrack?
These things used to be mine
I guess they still are, I want them back

Broke into the old apartment
Forty-two stairs from the street
Crooked landing, crooked landlord
Narrow laneway 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 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

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
But this is where we used to live

Broke into the old apartment
Tore the phone out of the wall
Only memories, fading memories
Blending into dull tableaux
I want them back

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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velorution
08-12-2006

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what monkeyman said up there, i was in the same situation. and his view is understandable. but when we moved it hurt. i left a lot of friends and great times behind. but still, great song

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spookythebando
11-21-2007

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Anyone care to discuss why it's 42 steps from the street?
I like 42... It's the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. :-)

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kingcamden
12-12-2007

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In my opinion, the couple is still together when they visit their old apartment, and they're still happy with each other. I got the impression from "her body keeps me warm" he was just referring to their intimacy, not really by the lyrics themselves, but by the way he sings them, like a musical wink to the audience.

And while I do see the domestic violence thing, I don't really think that's what they're referring to. I think the song is actually pretty funny, referring to dish rack, pissing off the neighbor downstairs, etc.

The part that gets to me is when he says "tore the phone out of the wall..." To me, the song is about returning to their old apt, and reflecting back on all the trials, tribulations and triumphs, the successes and failures ("broken hearts"), from the time he got so mad he punched a hole in the door to when they couldn't afford heat, all experienced in this apartment, were now just memories that were fading in much the same way you can only piece together parts of a dream in a tableau. He realizes all the memories and hardships that made their relationship strong and built personal character happened right here in the apartment, and realizing he'll never get those back, he rips the phone out of the wall. That's what it means to me.

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g0alpost1
02-11-2009

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best bare naked laday song ever made... by far... and i doubt its about domestic violence.. thats jsut what some housewife thought...

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