High Cost Of Livin' - Jamey Johnson

High Cost Of Livin' chords

Intro c

C
I was just a normal guy
Life was just a nine to five
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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
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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
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everyday the same damn thing I couldn't even tell I was alive

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               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
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Sit there in my pickup truck and pray
And staring at that giant cross
Just reminded me that i was lost
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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
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But I traded that for cocaine and a whore
With my new found sobriety
I've got the time to sit and think

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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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