Basement Apartment

Well you live out where the street ends

In a basement apartment 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

And 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 every time i breathe

Every time i try to leave

Every time i breathe

Now the toaster sticks, the empties are piled

I haven't been up the stairs in awhile now

I gotta wash the sheets on my bed

I gotta watch those things that go unsaid

God, i wish we'd leave it at this

Every time i breathe

Every time i try to leave

Every time i breathe

And every evening you open the door, you come down

There's nothing like watching t.v all night underground

And no one is watching me slide

Below street level, barely alive

Now we live out where the street ends

In a basement apartment just like our friends

We always said that we were different

But you know now that we weren't

Cuz there's holes in all the bottles and my lungs hurt

Every time i breathe

Every time i try to leave

Every time i breathe