Chords for Jamey Johnson - High Cost of Living (Live at Farm Aid 2018)

[Bb] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ [F] _ [C] _ _
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_ _ I was just a normal guy. _
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Life was just a nine-to-five with bills and pressure piled up to the [G] sky.
_ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ _ She never asked, she knew I'd [C] been [G] hanging with my wilder [F] friends, [G] looking for some other way [C] to fly. _ _ _ _
Three days straight was no big fee to get by on no food or [Eb] sleep, [F] and crazy was [C] becoming [Dm] my new norm.
_ _ _ [C] I'd pass out on the bedroom floor, [G] sleep right [C] through the calm before the storm. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ [F] My life was just a normal routine, [G] every day the same [C] damn thing, I couldn't even [Bb] tell I [F] was alive.
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[C] I tell you, the high cost of living [G] ain't nothing like the cost of living [C] high. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ That Southern [F] Baptist [C] parking lot was where I'd go to smoke my pot, sit there in my pickup [G] truck and [Gm] pray. _
[G] _ _ _ Staring at that giant cross just reminded me that I was lost, it just never seemed to [Bb] point the way.
[C] _ [Cm] _ _ Soon as [Fm] Jesus [C] turned his back, I'd find my way across the [Eb] tracks, [F] looking just to [Ab] score [Dm] another deal.
_ [Cm] With my back against that damn eight ball, [G] I didn't have to think or [C] talk _ [Fm] or feel.
_ [C] _ [Fm] _ _ [C] _ [F] My life was just a normal routine, [G] every day the same damn [C] thing, I couldn't [Bb] even tell I [F] was alive.
_ _ _ [C] The high cost of living [G] ain't nothing like the cost [C] of living high. _
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ My whole life went through my head, laying in that motel bed, watching as [Ab] the cops kicked [G] in the [Gm] door.
I [C] _ _ [G] _ had a job and a piece of land, my sweet wife was my best friend, [C] but I traded that for cocaine and a whore.
_ _ [Fm] _ [C]
With my newfound sobriety, I've got the time to sit and think of all [F] the [C] things I [Fm] had [Dm]
but threw away.
_ [C] This prison is much colder than [G] that one that I was locked [C] up in.
_ _ _ _ _ Just yesterday, _
[Bb] [Fm] my life was just a normal [G] routine, every day the same damn [C] thing, hell I can't even [Bb] tell I [C] was [Fm] alive.
_ _ _ [C] The high cost of living [G] ain't nothing like the cost of [Fm] living [C] high.
_ [Fm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Ab] _
_ [C] The high cost of living ain't nothing like the cost of living high.
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