We bought an old house I put down for

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Uh, yeah. That would be while browsing around on this site. Oops...and this song has been out for how long? A decade plus? Greeeat. How many people have heard me sing the wrong lyrics? Loudly too, no doubt. *sigh* I thought he was saying that he'd bought an old house, and that he'd made the down payment on it himself...you know....as opposed to just shelling out rent for that old apartment he seems to love waxing nostalgic for? Yeah. It sounds pretty dumb to me in hindsight, too. *slinks off stage left*