Used To Get High chords by John Butler Trio

Difficulty: Beginner



Tuning:     Standard

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

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

Em            G
I used to get high for a living
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Believing everything that I saw on my TV
C             Em
I used to get high for a living
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Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
Yeah, that they sold me

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

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

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