High Cost Of Living chords by Jamey Johnson

Jamey Johnson - High Cost Of Living
(no capo arrangement)

Intro C  |  |  |  ||

Verse 1
C
I was just a normal guy, life was just a nine to five
                     G
With bills and pressure piled up to the sky.

She never asked, she knew I'd been hangin' with my wilder friends
               C
Looking for another way to fly.

And three days straight was no big feat

To get by on no food or sleep
   F     C/E      Dm
And crazy was becoming my new norm.
   C
I'd pass out on the bedroom floor
   G                    C
And sleep right through the calm before the storm.

Chorus
  F
My life was just an old routine,
G                 C       Bb     F
Every day the same damn thing, I couldn't even tell I was alive.
         C
I tell you, the high cost of living,
    G                 C
Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high.

Verse 2
   C
That Southern Baptist parking lot was where I'd go to smoke my pot.
                 G
Sit there in my pickup truck and pray and staring at that giant cross
                                     C
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
F         C/E      Dm
 Lookin' just to score another deal.
     C
With my back against that damn eight ball
 G              C
I didn't have to think or talk or feel.







Chorus
  F
My life was just an old routine.
G                 C      Bb      F
Every day the same damn thing, I couldn't even tell I was alive.
        C
I tell you, the high cost of living,
    G                C
Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high.

Verse 3
 C
My whole life went through my head laying in that hotel bed
                  G
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
But I traded that for cocaine and a whore.

With my new found sobriety I've got the time to sit and think
  F        C/E        Dm
Of all the things I had and threw away.
    C
This prison is much colder than that
G                 C
One that I was locked up in just yesterday.

Chorus
  F
My life is just an old routine.
G                 C      Bb      F
Everyday's the same damn thing, I can't even tell if I'm alive.
        C
I tell you, the high cost of living
    G                C
Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high.

I tell you, the high cost of living
    G                C
Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high.

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