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            G 
   You live out where the street ends 
 
     Cadd9    G         D           C 
in a basement apt. with one of 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           D   C 
but it can't clean the dirt off of me 
 
             Cadd9     G 
It's seeping under the door 
 
Cadd9         G 
in across the floor 
 
     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               D    C   
I haven't been up the stairs in awhile now 
 
  Cadd9          G     
I gotta wash the sheets on my bed 
 
Cadd9           G   
gotta watch the things that go unsaid 
 
Cadd9           G            D    C 
God I wish we'd leave it at 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                                           C 
There's nothing like watching tv 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            G 
Now we live out where the street ends 
 
     Cadd9    G         Cadd9    G 
in a basement apt. just like our friends 
 
          Cadd9             G 
We always said that we were different 
 
        Cadd9            G 
but you know now that we weren't 
 
       Cadd9                    G 
'cause there's holes in all the bottles 
 
    D        C 
and my lungs hurt___| 
 
 
{Repeat Chorus}