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What You Live By

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[Intro]
Em(I recoGmmend wDhistliBng the guitar melody for the intro, if you're playing this solo acoustic)
[Verse 1]
EmMeet me up on 99, beGneath the Marco Polo sign
EmI'll be the one with a box of wine and a Ahundred dollar car
EmWe could talk about the lives we've led
And Gcount the reasons we're not dead
EmOr maybe we could talk instead about the Aways in which we are
[Pre-Chorus]
GAlways Bnothing or too much to say
GOnly so many Bsides of the record to play
GAnd the song that got Bstuck in my head said
[Chorus]
You Emdie by Dwhat you Clive byB  
You will Emdie by Dwhat you Clive byB  
You will Emdie by Dwhat you Clive by Bevery Atime
[Verse 2]
(Note that the second verse and prechorus use different progressions from the first ones)
EmLike carnivores to carnal pleasures
GSo were we to desperate measures
DMelting into stagnant puddles, Embeat down by the sun
I Emwent to school, I didn't stay
Spoke right Gup when I had nothing good to Dsay
(and I said it to anyone who would Blisten)
[Pre-Chorus]
GLay me Bdown in the bed that I Dmade
Starved for Csleep by the shrill serenade
Singing Bover and over
[Chorus]
You Emdie by Dwhat you Clive byB  
You will Emdie by Dwhat you Clive byB  
You will Emdie by Dwhat you Clive by Bevery Atime
You Emdie by Dwhat you Clive byB  
You will Emdie by Dwhat you Clive byB  
You will Emdie by Dwhat you Clive by Bevery Atime
Em

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What You Live By

by Harvey Danger

Lyrics & chords · Original key

Chords in this song · guitar

[Intro]

Em G D B

(I recommend whistling the guitar melody for the intro, if you're playing this solo acoustic)

[Verse 1]

Em G

Meet me up on 99, beneath the Marco Polo sign

Em A

I'll be the one with a box of wine and a hundred dollar car

We could talk about the lives we've led

And count the reasons we're not dead

Em A

Or maybe we could talk instead about the ways in which we are

[Pre-Chorus]

G B

Always nothing or too much to say

G B

Only so many sides of the record to play

G B

And the song that got stuck in my head said

[Chorus]

Em D C B

You die by what you live by

Em D C B

You will die by what you live by

Em D C B A

You will die by what you live by every time

[Verse 2]

(Note that the second verse and prechorus use different progressions from the first ones)

Like carnivores to carnal pleasures

So were we to desperate measures

D Em

Melting into stagnant puddles, beat down by the sun

I went to school, I didn't stay

G D

Spoke right up when I had nothing good to say

(and I said it to anyone who would listen)

[Pre-Chorus]

G B D

Lay me down in the bed that I made

Starved for sleep by the shrill serenade

Singing over and over

[Chorus]

Em D C B

You die by what you live by

Em D C B

You will die by what you live by

Em D C B A

You will die by what you live by every time

Em D C B

You die by what you live by

Em D C B

You will die by what you live by

Em D C B A

You will die by what you live by every time

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