Jamey Johnson – High Cost Of Living chords

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AI was just a normal guy.

ALife was just a nine to five.

A                                       EWith bills and pressure piled up to the sky.

EShe never asked, she knew I'd been,

Ehangin' with my wilder friends.

E                          Alooking for another way to fly.

    D                          BmAnd crazy, was becoming my new norm.

    AI'd pass out on the bedroom floor.

    E                                       AAnd sleep right through the calm before the storm.


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   DMy life was just an old routine.

E                               A             G          DEveryday the same damn thing, I couldn't even tell I was alive.

                AI tell you. The high cost of living, 

      E                               Aain't nothin' like the cost of living high.


AThat southern baptist parking lot.

AWas where I'd go and smoke my pot.

A                                 ESit there in my pick-up truck and pray.

EAnd stareing at that giant cross.

EJust reminded me that I was lost.

E                                     AAnd it just never seemed to point the way.

AAs soon as Jesus turned his back.

AI'd find my way across the tracks.

        D                     BmLookin' just to score another deal.

     AWith my back against that damn eight ball.

  E                               AI didn't have to think or talk or feel.


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AMy whole life went through my head.

ALaying in that hotel bed.

A                                  EWatchin' as the cops kicked in the door.

EI had a job and a piece of land.

E And my sweet wife, was my best friend.

E                                   ABut I traded that for cocaine and a whore.

AWith my new found sobriety.

AI've got the time to sit and think.

   D                               BmOf all the things I had, and threw away.

     AThis prison is much colder than that,

    E                            Aone that I was locked up in just yesterday.


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