What You Live By chords by Harvey Danger

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: F# minorF#m

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
E minorEm   G+G   D MajorD   BB
(I recommend whistling the guitar melody for the intro, if you're playing this solo acoustic)


Verse 1:
E minorEm         G+G
Meet me up on 99, beneath the Marco Polo sign
E minorEm                    A augmentedA
I'll be the one with a box of wine and a hundred dollar car
E minorEm
We could talk about the lives we've led
  G+G
And count the reasons we're not dead
E minorEm                    A augmentedA
Or maybe we could talk instead about the ways in which we are

Pre-Chorus:
G+G   BB
Always nothing or too much to say
G+G      BB
Only so many sides of the record to play
G+G           BB
And the song that got stuck in my head said


Chorus:
  E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC    BB
You die by what you live by
     E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC    BB
You will die by what you live by
     E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC   BB   A augmentedA
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)

E minorEm
Like carnivores to carnal pleasures
G+G
So were we to desperate measures
D MajorD               E minorEm
Melting into stagnant puddles, beat down by the sun
 E minorEm
I went to school, I didn't stay
      G+G               D MajorD
Spoke right up when I had nothing good to say
                  BB
(and I said it to anyone who would listen)

Pre-Chorus:
G+G   BB           D MajorD
Lay me down in the bed that I made
      C majorC
Starved for sleep by the shrill serenade
    BB
Singing over and over


Chorus:
  E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC    BB
You die by what you live by
     E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC    BB
You will die by what you live by
     E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC   BB   A augmentedA
You will die by what you live by every time
  E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC    BB
You die by what you live by
     E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC    BB
You will die by what you live by
     E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC   BB   A augmentedA
You will die by what you live by every time

E minorEm