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Artist: Sarah Harmer
Song Title: Basement Apartment
Submitted by: Tim Lawson (user turinbrakes)
Email: timlawson100@hotmail.com
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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.
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Standard Tuning: EADGBe
Capo: 3th Fret
Chords: (written as used without capo)
Cadd9 G D C
e|-3----|--3---|--2---|--0---|
B|-3----|--3---|--3---|--1---|
G|-0----|--0---|--2---|--0---|
D|-2----|--0---|--0---|--2---|
A|-3----|--2---|--0---|--3---|
E|-x----|--3---|--0(2)|--3---|
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..
Cadd9 G
e|-------3----3--333--
B|-------3----0--000--
G|-------0----0--000--
D|-----2-2----0--000--
A|---3---3----2--222--
E|-------x----3--333-- (repeated)
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[Intro:] (guitar kicks in just before the laughing part)
Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G,
Cadd9, G, D, C (repeat 2x times)
[Verse:]
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
You live out where the street ends
Cadd9 G D C
in a basement apt. with one of your friends
Cadd9 G
and the tap drips all night
Cadd9 G
water torture in the sink
Cadd9 G
The furnace is burning
D C Cadd9 G
but it's still cold i think ___
Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, D, C
Cadd9 G
I can smell the bleach
Cadd9 G
that they use in the hall
Cadd9 G D C
but it can't clean the dirt off of me
Cadd9 G
It's seeping under the door
Cadd9 G
in across the floor
Cadd9 G
it's starting to hurt
[Chorus:]
(D) (C) Cadd9 G Cadd9
Everytime I breatthe__|
G Cadd9 G D C
Everytime I try to leave__|
Cadd9 G D C
Everytime I breathe_____|
[Verse:]
Cadd9 G
Now the toaster sticks
Cadd9 G
and the empties are piled
Cadd9 G D C
I haven't been up the stairs in awhile now
Cadd9 G
I gotta wash the sheets on my bed
Cadd9 G
gotta watch the things that go unsaid
Cadd9 G D C
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]
D
And every evening you open the door
C
You come down
D C
There's nothing like watching tv all night on the ground
D C
and no one is watching me slide
D
below street level
C (pump up this chord, get ready for the chorus)
barely alive
[Instrumental] (chords from the chorus)
[Last verse]
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
Now we live out where the street ends
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
in a basement apt. just like our friends
Cadd9 G
We always said that we were different
Cadd0 G
but you know now that we weren't
Cadd9 G
'cause there's holes in all the bottles
D C
and my lungs hurt___|
[Repeat Chorus]
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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.
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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♥Chicken Average |
#1 by ♥Chicken On Heroine Shots♥ at Oct 1, 2007 at 12:21 PM EST |
| totally about pot. sarah's a total pothead... er, at least was at one point. i think she still is though, as of a few years ago when my friend got to smoke pot with her... i think that she has lot's of weed/joint/bottle references in weeping tile too. | |
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Berenice Average |
#2 by Berenice Issaris at Oct 3, 2007 at 11:10 PM EST |
| Some of you people are really dense! Just because Sarah Harmer is folksy, doesn't mean she's squeaky clean! This song has nothing to do with the apartment. It is about living on the fringe of society while dealing with the depression and drug addiction that put you there. The smell of bleach, the tap dripping and being underground are references to the deplorable situation and daily reminders that contribute to depression. This becomes blatantly obvious through the lines: "and no one is watching me slide below street level barely alive" The final lines regarding bottles with holes are certainly a reference to drug use. The whole song shows the circular nature of the problem - she can't afford a decent place to live, which makes her depressed and as a result she turns to drugs. The addiction enhances the depression and ensures that she will never be able to afford a better life - pushing her toward more drugs. | |
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caleb Wanna Be |
#3 by caleb at Oct 7, 2007 at 9:04 AM EST |
| it's not really about her apartment, the apartment isn't all that important. it's about being older, out on your own, in the real world and that point where you realise what you wanted isn't at all what you have. the heights that you were so sure you'd acheive haven't been. instead you slide below street level. and you have no idea how to fix it or change it. instead you stay where you are with aching lungs and holes in bottles. | |
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SLUT Badass |
#4 by SLUT at Oct 7, 2007 at 10:09 PM EST |
| This song is simply about the first time she move out on her own, and she lived in a shitty apartment. | |
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Chris Average |
#5 by Chris Essery at Oct 8, 2007 at 3:38 PM EST |
| An amazing song and now I know how my bro must feel living in the basement for like over six years, lol. I think this song is about living on your own and the sacrafices that have to be made, you have to settle with what you have, even if its living in a basement where you feel trapped with the people living up above you. You can complain all you want, but what you get is what you have to settle with, for at least some time. | |
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caleb Wanna Be |
#6 by caleb at Oct 9, 2007 at 9:49 AM EST |
| i have to say, i never thought this song was that negative. i mean, on the surface the conditions dont seem that great, but i always got a feeling of the freedom you feel living on your own for the first time and the sense of community you feel with your friends when you're young. but maybe that's just because i had my own apartment for the first time this year! no matter what, its a great song, and i always get warm feeling of youth from it. | |
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robert Average |
#7 by robert liedberg at Oct 12, 2007 at 12:25 AM EST |
| I can relate to this song all too well. To me, this song is about complaining just for the sake of being heard. All through the song, she is complaining about how terrible her apartment is, but deep down she doesn't want to be anywhere else or else she would get up and leave. | |
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silent Rhythm Player |
#8 by silent support at Oct 15, 2007 at 3:21 PM EST |
| i don't know, dudes. living in a basement is completely surreal. you feel suffocated by the floors of people weighing down on you. never seeing a substantial amount of daylight makes going outside more difficult and painful--and it comes to a point where you stop wanting to leave. she's captured exactly what it feels like to live in a basement apartment: barely alive. | |
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Jake Average |
#9 by Jake Staley at Oct 16, 2007 at 1:35 PM EST |
| I'm fairly certain the lyric "there's holes in all the bottles and my lungs hurt" refers to smoking pot (using a bottle as a bong) not meth,as someone earlier said. | |
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Dakota Average |
#10 by Dakota Keyes at Oct 17, 2007 at 3:53 AM EST |
| Did yall know this song also refers to meth? holes in all the bottles(thats a way you can smoke it) and her lungs hurt... | |
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Zane Rhythm Player |
#11 by Zane Haight at Oct 17, 2007 at 4:48 PM EST |
| I totally relate to this song. When I first moved out on my own 10 yrs ago I lived in a basement apartement and had a similar lifestyle: hanging out, watching the empties pile up, never really seing the light of day for days at a time, smoking too much pot, feeling like you barely exist anymore, like there's no meaning to life...it got really depressing. I was totally disillusioned after that, because I used to want that lifestyle, and after awhile I realized that living like that sucked and I was missing out on life. This song totally speaks to that time in my life. | |
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Jamie Wanna Be |
#12 by Jamie Smith at Oct 18, 2007 at 10:59 PM EST |
| this song is basically about looking down on people and thinking your better then them...and then finally realizing that everyone is born equal and that maybe your not better than other people | |
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