Jamey Johnson - "High Cost Of Living"

Intro c

C
I was just a normal guy
Life was just a nine to five
G
With bills and pressure piled up to the sky
She never asked she knew I'd been
Hanging with my wilder friends
C
Looking for some other way to fly
Three days straight was no big feet
To get by on no food or sleep
F D
And crazy was becoming my new norm
C
I'd pass out on the bedroom floor
G C
And sleep right through the calm before the storm

F G
My life was just an old routine
C F
everyday the same damn thing I couldn't even tell I was alive
C G C
I tell you the high cost of living ain't nothing like the cost of living high

C
That southern baptist parking lot
Was where I'd go to smoke my pot
G
Sit there in my pickup truck and pray
And staring at that giant cross
Just reminded me that i was lost
C
And it just never seemed to point the way
As soon as Jesus turned his back
I'd find my way across the tracks

F D
Looking just to score another deal
C
With my back against that damn eight ball
G C
I didn't have to think or talk or feel

Chorus

C
My whole life went through my head
Laying in that hotel bed
G
Watching as the cops kicked in the door
I had a job and a piece of land
And my sweet wife was my best friend
C
But I traded that for cocaine and a w***e
With my new found sobriety
I've got the time to sit and think

F D
Of all the things I had and threw away
C
This prison is much colder than that
G C
One that I was locked up in just yesterday

Chorus

I tell you high cost of living ain't nothing like the cost of living high

Leave that stuff alone

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