The Cost of Living - Don Henley
**note: the song is recorded one half-step lower (F#)
INTRO: G Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Dsus4 D
VERSE 1:
G Cmaj7 G
Some folks don?t like working hard, some folks don?t like rain
G Dsus4 D
Some folks love to tell you all about their aches and pains
G G/B C
Me, I take the hand I?m dealt, and I play it as it lays
G D G Cmaj7 D
It?s the cost of living, and everyone pays
VERSE 2:
G Cmaj7 G
You can live in memories of all your golden yesterdays
G G/B Dsus4 D
Or spend your whole life grieving for the one that got away
G G/B C
Common sense says let her go, but your heart disobeys
G D G G/A - G/B
It?s the cost of living, and everyone pays
BRIDGE:
C G G/F# Em A D
Blue shadows falling all around me, still I don?t regret a single day
INSTRUMENTAL: G G7 G7/B C G D G
VERSE 3:
G Cmaj7 G
I look in the mirror now, I see the time can be unkind
G Dsus4 D
But I know every wrinkle, and I earned every line
G G/B C
So wear it like a royal crown, when you get old and grey
G D G G/A - G/B
It?s the cost of living, and everyone pays
C G D Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 D G
It?s the cost of living, and everyone pays
