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 neighbour 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 here
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