Basement Apartment

D#add9 A# D#add9 A# D#add9 A# F D# 2x D#add9 A# D#add9 A# You live out where the street ends D#add9 A# F D# in a basement apt. with one of your friends D#add9 A# and the tap drips all night D#add9 A# water torture in the sink D#add9 A# The furnace is burning F D# D#add9 A# but it's still cold I think D#add9 A# D#add9 A# F D# D#add9 A# I can smell the bleach D#add9 A# that they use in the hall D#add9 A# F D# but it can't clean the dirt off of me D#add9 A# It's seeping under the door D#add9 A# in across the floor D#add9 A# it's starting to hurt F D# D#add9 A# D#add9 Everytime I breathe A# D#add9 A# F D# Everytime I try to leave D#add9 A# F D# Everytime I breathe D#add9 A# Now the toaster sticks D#add9 A# and the empties are piled D#add9 A# F D# I haven't been up the stairs in a while now D#add9 A# I gotta wash the sheets on my bed D#add9 A# gotta watch the things that go unsaid D#add9 A# F D# 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) F D# D#add9 A# D#add9 Everytime I breathe A# D#add9 A# F D# Everytime I try to leave D#add9 A# F D# Everytime I breathe F And every evening you open the door D# You come down F D# There's nothing like watching TV all night on the ground F D# and no one is watching me slide F below street level C (pump up this chord, get ready for the chorus) barely alive (chords from the chorus) F D# D#add9 A# D#add9 Everytime I breathe A# D#add9 A# F D# Everytime I try to leave D#add9 A# F D# Everytime I breathe Last Verse D#add9 A# D#add9 A# Now we live out where the street ends D#add9 A# D#add9 A# in a basement apt. just like our friends D#add9 A# We always said that we were different Cadd0 G but you know now that we weren't D#add9 A# 'cause there's holes in all the bottles F D# and my lungs hurt Repeat Chorus F D# D#add9 A# D#add9 Everytime I breathe A# D#add9 A# F D# Everytime I try to leave D#add9 A# F D# Everytime I breathe