Chords with lyrics
Jamey Johnson - High Cost Of Living
(no capo arrangement)
Intro C majorC | | | ||
Verse 1
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I was just a normal guy, life was just a nine to five
G+G
With bills and pressure piled up to the sky.
She never asked, she knew I'd been hangin' with my wilder friends
C majorC
Looking for another way to fly.
And three days straight was no big feat
To get by on no food or sleep
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And crazy was becoming my new norm.
C majorC
I'd pass out on the bedroom floor
G+G C majorC
And sleep right through the calm before the storm.
Chorus
FF
My life was just an old routine,
G+G C majorC Bb majorBb FF
Every day the same damn thing, I couldn't even tell I was alive.
C majorC
I tell you, the high cost of living,
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Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high.
Verse 2
C majorC
That Southern Baptist parking lot was where I'd go to smoke my pot.
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Sit there in my pickup truck and pray and staring at that giant cross
C majorC
Just reminded me that I was lost and it just never seemed to point the way.
As soon as Jesus turned his back I'd find my way across the tracks
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Lookin' just to score another deal.
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With my back against that damn eight ball
G+G C majorC
I didn't have to think or talk or feel.
Chorus
FF
My life was just an old routine.
G+G C majorC Bb majorBb FF
Every day the same damn thing, I couldn't even tell I was alive.
C majorC
I tell you, the high cost of living,
G+G C majorC
Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high.
Verse 3
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My whole life went through my head laying in that hotel bed
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Watchin' as the cops kicked in the door.
I had a job and a piece of land and my sweet wife was my best friend
C majorC
But I traded that for cocaine and a whore.
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.
C majorC
This prison is much colder than that
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One that I was locked up in just yesterday.
Chorus
FF
My life is just an old routine.
G+G C majorC Bb majorBb FF
Everyday's the same damn thing, I can't even tell if I'm alive.
C majorC
I tell you, the high cost of living
G+G C majorC
Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high.
I tell you, the high cost of living
G+G C majorC
Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high.
Solo FF |G+G |C majorC Bb majorBb |FF |C majorC |G+G |C majorC | ||x2 and fade