Gettin Good At Bein Bad chords by Jeff Daniels

Gettin? Good at Bein? Bad
Jeff Daniels

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I started out young, smoking cigarettes
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I was the Marlboro Man, ?cause he was as good as it gets,
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He died of cancer with a lot of regrets  but I kept right on smoking ?cause I didn?t.
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Alcoholically speaking, I had nothing to fear, until one hot summer?s day I had an ice cold beer.
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Then I had me another, got a third right here?"next thing I know there?s a drunk in my mirror.
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Gettin? good at bein? bad, had me some trouble with the trouble I?ve had.
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Get so happy then I get so sad, gettin? good at bein? bad.
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Next I had me a puff of that marijuana, can?t say no when you know you wanna
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Turned my mind into mush like I was sittin? in a sauna, contemplating the meaning of Madonna
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Next a friend of mine slipped me some LSD, ?Here, swallow this, you won?t believe what you see.?
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Twenty minutes later I thought I was a tree and all of my leaves were laughing at me.
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Gettin? good at bein? bad, had me some trouble with the trouble I?ve had.
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Get so happy then I get so sad, gettin? good at bein? bad.
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And those of you out there, cleaner than a whistle, straighter than an incoming nuclear missile
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You don?t imbibe, won?t partake, and think those who do make a big mistake.
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You?re high and mighty, holier than thou, you?re lookin? down your nose at what I?m talking about.
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Go ahead, roll your eyes, refuse to listen, but between you and me you don?t know what you?re missing
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Well, the older I get the more pain I have to kill, so I went to my doctor, he prescribed me some
pills.
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?Take 22 tablets 12 times a day? ?" now pharmaceutically-speaking, I?m doing A-OK.
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My TV told me that if I took Cialis, I could turn my bedroom into a sexual palace
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Sure, enough, like wild horses you couldn?t corral us, I was the Marquis de Sade and
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She was Debbie doing Dallas.

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Gettin? good at bein? bad, had me some trouble with the trouble I?ve had.
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Get so happy then I get so sad, gettin? good at bein? bad.
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Just this morning, got me a serious jones, made me quiver all over till it rattled my bones.
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Just when I thought I was out of luck, I looked up and seen me a Starbucks.

(Don?t think they ain?t lacing that shit with something.)
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Gettin? good at bein? bad, had me some trouble with the trouble I?ve had.
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Get so happy then I get so sad, gettin? good at bein? bad.