If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?

Album: Anywhere But Here (2009)
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  • Frontman Derek Sanders explained this song's title to Artist Direct: "A year or two ago, I always thought it would be awesome to name a song "If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" When we were writing the songs for this record, that one had the perfect feeling for the title. A Lesson in Romantics had songs with longer, kind of interesting and clever titles, and that fits with it."

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