Discover the story of the song > I Live off You – X-Ray Spex

The lyrics talk about how everybody in the world depends on each other to survive, but unfortunately, someone always has to take advantage of someone else. The protagonist sings about how they live off of their partner and their partner lives off of them, but this happens everywhere. They compare it to how a cat eats a rat and a pimp beats a whore, while the person being exploited still wants more. The chorus repeats that someone always has to exploit someone else to survive, and the song ends with a la la la.