Used To Get High chords by John Butler Trio

Chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Beginner


Tuning:   Standard

E minorEm      G+G
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Believing everything that I saw on my TV
C majorC       E minorEm
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
E minorEm      G+G
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Thinking that my destiny was out of my control
C majorC       E minorEm
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
There's lots of different reasons and I'll tell you so

E minorEm        G+G        D MajorD
Super size, large fries, big mac, coca cola
D MajorD
Go on man, pick your poison
E minorEm      G+G
Speed, weed, ecstasy, LSD
   D MajorD
Man, it don't bother me cos we're all on something
E minorEm    G+G
Caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol
       D MajorD
You know I'm clawing at the walls trying to get my fix
E minorEm       G+G
Prozac, ADD tablets, coke, smack
D MajorD
Now you know I am turning tricks cos

E minorEm      G+G
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Believing everything that I saw on my TV
C majorC       E minorEm
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
Yeah, that they sold me

E minorEm      G+G         D MajorD
Escape, can't wait all trying to get away
D MajorD
From this place man that we're feeling
E minorEm        G+G
Can't deal, can't feel what's real
  D MajorD
All trying to conceal all this time we're stealing
E minorEm      G+G
No doubt, the route you're on
   D MajorD
Can't find the clout that you've been needing
E minorEm      G+G         D MajorD
'Til then my friend you must contend
D MajorD
With the monster that you're feeding
E minorEm      G+G
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Believing everything that I saw on my TV
C majorC       E minorEm
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
E minorEm      G+G
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Thinking that my destiny was out of my control
C majorC       E minorEm
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
There's lots of different reasons and I'll tell you so

E minorEm        G+G
Got links of the cheney
            D MajorD
Getting crazy, getting lazy with their foreign relations
E minorEm           G+G
Starting wars, closing doors
           D MajorD
Trying to bring about one quicker, man, revelations
E minorEm    G+G                D MajorD
Economic rational calling fouls with the workers
D MajorD
Just trying to make it pay
E minorEm         G+G
Cost cutting, head butting
        D MajorD
Big business do what they like and you do what they say
E minorEm        G+G              D MajorD
What's wrong get along, just prolong all the thoughts
D MajorD
You got going on, on the inside
E minorEm        G+G         D MajorD
Appease, stand at ease, just try to please
D MajorD
All the apathy that you're trying to hide
E minorEm      G+G
How now brown cow
      D MajorD
Did we get from this standing place and now we're kneeling
E minorEm      G+G        D MajorD
'Til then my friend you must contend with the monster that you're feeding

E minorEm      G+G
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Believing everything that I saw on my TV
C majorC       E minorEm
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
E minorEm      G+G
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
Thinking that my destiny was out of my control
C majorC       E minorEm
I used to get high for a living
D MajorD
There's lots of different reasons and I'll tell you so