What You Live By chords by Harvey Danger

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: F#m

Difficulty: Intermediate

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
Em
We could talk about the lives we've led
  G
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)

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


Pre-Chorus:
G   B           D
Lay me down in the bed that I made
      C
Starved for sleep by the shrill serenade
    B
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

Em