Basement Apartment

{Intro:} (guitar kicks in just 
before the laughing part)

Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G,
Cadd9, G, D, C       (repeat 2x 
times)

{Verse:}

Cadd9        G  Cadd9            
   You live out where the street 
G
ends

     Cadd9    G         D        
in a basement apt. with one of 
   C
your friends

        Cadd9         G
and the tap drips all night

      Cadd9          G
water torture in the sink

    Cadd9      G
The furnace is burning

          D    C        Cadd9 G
but it's still cold i think ___


Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, D, C


Cadd9           G
I can smell the bleach

          Cadd9      G
that they use in the hall

       Cadd9           G           
but it can't clean the dirt off of 
D   C
me

             Cadd9     G
It's seeping under the door

Cadd9         G
in across the floor

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     Cadd9       G
it's starting to hurt


{Chorus:}


(D)   (C)   Cadd9     G   Cadd9
Everytime I breatthe__|

     G             Cadd9  G  D  C
Everytime I try to leave__|

            Cadd9       G   D C
Everytime I breathe_____|


{Verse:}

        Cadd9   G
Now the toaster sticks

        Cadd9       G
and the empties are piled

  Cadd9               G       
I haven't been up the stairs in 
        D    C
awhile now

  Cadd9          G
I gotta wash the sheets on my bed

Cadd9           G
gotta watch the things that go 
unsaid

Cadd9           G        
God I wish we'd leave it at 
    D    C
this____|


{Repeat Chorus} (except the 
beginning D & C
               chords wich are 
already
               played at the end of 
verse)

{Verse}

D
  And every evening you open the 
door

          C
You come down

        D                          
There's nothing like watching tv 
                 C
all night on the ground

    D                       C
and no one is watching me slide

D
below street level

         C    (pump up this chord, 
get ready for the Chorus)
barely alive


{Instrumental} (chords from the 
Chorus)


{Last verse}

    Cadd9   G   Cadd9            
Now we live out where the street 
G
ends

     Cadd9    G         Cadd9    
in a basement apt. just like our 
G
friends

          Cadd9            
We always said that we were 
 G
different

        Cadd9            G
but you know now that we weren't

       Cadd9                   
'cause there's holes in all the 
 G
bottles

    D        C
and my lungs hurt___|


{Repeat Chorus}