Damage chords by Tim Brantley

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Intro 1

I was

Verse 1
C 
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
C 
Bb 
Hangin' with my wilder friends
G 
Bb 
C 
Lookin' for some other way to fly
And three days straight was no big feat
To get by on no food
F 
Or sleepin' crazy was
Dm 
becomin' my new norm
C 
I'd pass out on the bedroom floor
G 
Sleep right through the calm
C 
before the storm
F 
My life was just an old routine
G 
Every day the same damn thing
C 
Bb 
I couldn't even tell I   was alive
F 
C 
Dm 
C 
I tell you, the high cost of livin'
G 
C 
Ain't nothin' like the cost of livin' high
That Southern Baptist parking lot
Was where I'd go to smoke my pot
G 
And sit there in my pickup truck and pray
And starin' at that giant cross
Just reminded me that I was lost
C 
And it just never seemed to point the way
F 
C 
As soon as Jesus turned his back
I'd find my way across the tracks
F 
C 
Dm 
Lookin' 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
Bb 
F 
My life was just an old routine
G 
Every day the same damn thing
C 
Bb 
F 
I couldn't even tell I was alive
C 
I tell you, the high cost of livin'
G 
Ain't nothin' like the cost
C 
Bb 
C 
of livin' high
Bb 
C 
My  whole life went through my head
Layin' in that motel bed watching
G 
as the cops kicked in the door
I had a job and a piece of land
my sweet wife was my best friend
C 
but I traded that for cocaine and a whore
with my newfound sobriety
I've got the time to sit
F 
C 
Dm 
and think of all the things I have
C 
This prison is much colder
G 
than that one
C 
that I was locked up in just yesterday
Bb 
F 
My life is just an old routine,
G 
everyday the same damn thing
C 
Bb 
F 
Hell, I  can't even tell if I'm alive
C 
I tell you, the high cost of livin'
G 
C 
Ain't nothin' like the cost of livin' high
I tell you, the high cost of livin'
G 
C 
Ain't nothin' like the cost of livin' high
Bb 
Just leave that stuff alone