Basement Apartment

Artist: Sarah Harmer

Song Title: Basement Apartment

Submitted by: Tim Lawson (user turinbrakes)

Email: timlawson100@hotmail.com

This is a great song but i couldn't find any tabs for this so i just tabbed it out

myself and i'm pretty sure this is 100% accurate so check it out.

Standard Tuning: EADGBe

Capo: 3th Fret

Chords: (written as used without capo)

Okay, so the most 'tricky' part

(as far as you wanna call it tricky)

is the rhytm of the Cadd9 and the G chords..

The rhytm of these two particular chords

is used troughout the whole song except

for the chorus..

E|-------x----3--333-- (repeated)

[Intro:] (guitar kicks in just before the laughing part)

Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G,

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

[Verse:]

You live out where the street ends

in a basement apt. with one of your friends

and the tap drips all night

water torture in the sink

The furnace is burning

but it's still cold i think ___

Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, D, C

I can smell the bleach

that they use in the hall

but it can't clean the dirt off of me

It's seeping under the door

in across the floor

it's starting to hurt

[Chorus:]

Everytime I breatthe__|

Everytime I try to leave__|

Everytime I breathe_____|

[Verse:]

Now the toaster sticks

and the empties are piled

I haven't been up the stairs in awhile now

I gotta wash the sheets on my bed

gotta watch the things that go unsaid

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]

And every evening you open the door

You come down

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

and no one is watching me slide

below street level

C (pump up this chord, get ready for the chorus)

barely alive

[Instrumental] (chords from the chorus)

[Last verse]

Now we live out where the street ends

in a basement apt. just like our friends

We always said that we were different

but you know now that we weren't

'cause there's holes in all the bottles

and my lungs hurt___|

[Repeat Chorus]

03/05/02

That’s it, a very nice song. You can easilly perform this with just an accoustic, that’s

how i first played it. Do you have any comment, suggestions, deaththreaths or marriage

proposels? Email me at timlawson100@hotmail.com.