What You Live By — Harvey Danger
Chords and lyrics for What You Live By by Harvey Danger (key of C).
Intro
[Em](I [G]recommend [D][B]whistling the guitar melody for the intro, if you're playing
this solo acoustic)
Verse 1
[Em]Meet me up on 99, [G]beneath the Marco Polo sign
[Em]I'll be the one with a box of wine and a [A]hundred dollar car
[Em]We could talk about the lives we've led
And [G]count the reasons we're not dead
[Em]Or maybe we could talk instead about the [A]ways in which we are
Pre-Chorus
[G]Always [B]nothing or too much to say
[G]Only so many [B]sides of the record to play
[G]And the song that got [B]stuck in my head said
Chorus
You [Em]die by [D]what you [C]live by[B]
You will [Em]die by [D]what you [C]live by[B]
You will [Em]die by [D]what you [C]live by[B] every [A]time
Verse 2
(Note that the second verse and prechorus use different progressions from
the first ones)
[Em]Like carnivores to carnal pleasures
[G]So were we to desperate measures
[D]Melting into stagnant puddles, [Em]beat down by the sun
I [Em]went to school, I didn't stay
Spoke right [G]up when I had nothing good to [D]say
(and I said it to anyone who would [B]listen)
Pre-Chorus
[G]Lay me [B]down in the bed that I [D]made
Starved for [C]sleep by the shrill serenade
Singing [B]over and over
Chorus
You [Em]die by [D]what you [C]live by[B]
You will [Em]die by [D]what you [C]live by[B]
You will [Em]die by [D]what you [C]live by[B] every [A]time
You [Em]die by [D]what you [C]live by[B]
You will [Em]die by [D]what you [C]live by[B]
You will [Em]die by [D]what you [C]live by[B] every [A]time
[Em]
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