or Albums: BN, Gordon, MYSD, BOAPS, RS, Stunt, Maroon, Disc 1, E2E, BFTH, [MISC].
The Old Apartment
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
Words & Music by Steven Page & Ed Robertson
  
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Original Album (Born on a Pirate Ship) Version: Jim Creeggan: Double bass, electric double bass, vocals. Steven Page: Electric guitar, lead vocal. Ed Robertson: Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals. Tyler Stewart: Drums, phat drumz guy, shaker, vocals. I started writing this song as a melancholy ballad, maybe a bit like The Smith's "Back to the Old House." Ed suggested turning it into a rock song, giving us our first Top 40 hit. After a year of touring in support of our Born on a Pirate Ship album, the song finally seemed to stick. We then had the pleasure of hearing Casey Kasem say our name on the radio, before introducing us as number forty. And by the way, to answer one of the most common questions I get, the protagonist is still with the same woman - it's the new tenants of his old place that he's intruded upon. - Steven Page, 2001. |
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Rock Spectacle Version: Recorded live at either the Riviera in Chicago or the Olympia in Montreal, in Spring 1996. Jim Creeggan: Bass guitar, double bass, vocals. Kevin Hearn: Accordion, electric guitar, keyboards, vocals. Steven Page: Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lead vocal. Ed Robertson: Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals. Tyler Stewart: Drums, vocals. |
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99.7X X Music: Volume II "X The Halls" Version: This is a live in studio version. |
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"Live X III RAINN Songs" Version: Recorded in studio at Atlanta radio station WNNX. |
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"WBCN Naked Too" Version: This song was recorded live in studio at WBCN (Boston radio station) on July 30th, 1998. |
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Y100 Sonic Sessions Version: Recorded live in studio in Philadelphia, PA station Y100 (100.3 FM), in 1998. There were only 15,000 pressings of this CD made. |