High Cost Of Living chords by Jamey Johnson
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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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
Hangin' with my wilder friends
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Looking for some other way to fly
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Verse 2
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And three days straight was no big feat
Could get by with no food or sleep
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And crazy was was becoming my new norm
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I'd pass out on the bedroom floor
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Sleep right through the calm before the storm
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Chorus 1
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life was just an old routine
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Every day the same damn thing
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I couldn't even tell I was alive
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I tell you, the high cost of livin'
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Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high
Verse 3
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That Southern Baptist parking lot
Is where I'd go to smoke my pot
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Sit there in my pickup truck and pray
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
Verse 4
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As soon as Jesus turned his back
I'd find my way across the track
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Lookin' just to score another deal
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With my back against that damn eight ball
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I didn't have to think or talk or feel
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life was just an old routine
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Every day the same damn thing
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I couldn't even tell I was alive
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I tell you, the high cost of livin'
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Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high
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Verse 5
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My whole life went through my head
Layin' in that motel bed
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Watchin' as the cops kicked in the door
I had a job and a piece of land
My sweet wife was my best friend
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But I traded that for cocaine and a whore
Verse 6
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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
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This prison is much colder than
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That one that I was locked up in,
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just yesterday
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life is just an old routine
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Every day the same damn thing
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Hell I can't even tell if I'm alive
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I tell you, the high cost of livin'
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Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high
I tell you, the high cost of livin'
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It ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high
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Solo 1
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Outro 1
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High Cost Of Living
Jamey Johnson
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