What You Live By

[Verse 1] Meet me up on 99, beneath the Marco Polo sign 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 Or maybe we could talk instead about the ways in which we are [Pre-Chorus] Always nothing or too much to say Only so many sides of the record to play And the song that got stuck in my head said [Chorus] You die by what you live by You will die by what you live by You will die by what you live by every time [Verse 2] Like carnivores to carnal pleasures So were we to desperate measures Melting into stagnant puddles, beat down by the sun I went to school, I didn't stay Spoke right up when I had nothing good to say (and I said it to anyone who would listen) [Pre-Chorus] Lay me down in the bed that I made Starved for sleep by the shrill serenade Singing over and over [Chorus x2]