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 whore
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
[Thanks to james jacobs for tabs]
