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New Apartment: Lyrics
Updated: Jun 8, 2020
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Lyrics for "New Apartment"
track 1 from Child Coming Home (album, 2019)
Bookend:
I rented out the space that you used to take
In my head and my heart
I kept the terms of our agreement
But your lease was fake
Although your head used to park
On my chest after dark
Bookend Bridge:
This is where my journey home started
Living on my own in a new apartment
I was hopeless; I was broken-hearted
This is where my journey home started
Verse 1:
I met you at our work when the driving snow
Filled the booths with cold feet
I stirred up gallons of chili
While your hired hands
Kept turning up my low heat
And at first the flavor was sweet
So I did not turn the lock on my door at night
Though I should have said “It takes time”
So all it took was your apartment burning down
For you to move into mine,
To tell me you love being mine
So then I had a
Chorus:
A new apartment where the winter crept
Another lonely night of being told
I wandered through an empty room and slept
A bed of fire beneath the freezing cold
Verse 2:
You always put your feet on the couch while we talked
And the microwave was thawing our frozen beef
And you always grinned as you said time and time again
I’ll turn over a new leaf
And stole my heart back like a thief
But I shoulda known that you were the type to rove
You shoulda bought an RV
Because as soon as the weather told me to light our stove
You had rolled out on me
Told me I have to chase an old dream
So again I had a
Chorus
A new apartment where the winter crept
Another lonely night of being told
I wandered through an empty room and slept
A bed of fire beneath the freezing cold
Bridge:
To stay alive and never woken!
An early morning on a snowy night
Maybe going through a mass commotion
On the other side of town tonight
Verse 3:
You’d find a crockpot meal on my counter now-
No sense in cooking for one-
If you hadn’t left me with scalded hands
If you weren’t on the run
With my dream of a son
So again I’m looking for a reason to buy a home
Where I can plant some young trees
And where I know, even when I’ve got the itch to roam,
It’s not a seasonal lease
If I want a harvest of peace
But for now I’ve got a
Chorus
A new apartment where the winter crept
Another lonely night of being told
I wandered through an empty room and slept
A bed of fire beneath the freezing cold
Bookend:
I rented out the space that you used to take
In my head and my heart
I kept the terms of our agreement
But your lease was fake
Although your head used to park
On my chest after dark