The Old Landlord lyrics
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Artist: The Town Pants Album: Weight Of Words
Lyrics
We moved into a house On twelvth avenue It was a rising damp With an alley for a view
A skin of peeling paint And an attic full of mice To turn the shower on You had to flush the toilet twice
At night it creaked and groaned And swayed in the wind The bugs were drunk on mold And the cockroaches grinned
With an alley full of cats Rutting through the night And a front yard full of rats But it was home to us despite
Knocking on the door The old landlord came Rotten to the core Knocking on the door The first of the month Always wanting more
If we knew when we moved in What only lay ahead Saying home sweet home Would be be better left unsaid
Cracks in the ceiling Whiskey stains on the floor The ghosts of all of those Who had lived there before
Pigeons messed the roof And it leaked when it rained If something ever broke The landlord never came
And to call him a bastard Would be a compliment We'd only hear from him When he came to raise the rent
And when we'd had enough We backed a truck on the lawn We loaded up the half-ton And by midnight we were gone
And when the landlord came For his money once again All he heard was an echo And never again
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