High Cost of Living

Accordi High Cost of Living

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 I was just a normal guy

Life was just a nine to five
                                        
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With bills and pressure piled-up to the sky
                             
She never asked, she knew I'd bewen
                       
Hangin' with my wilder friends
                              
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Lookin' for some other way to fly
                             
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 normal
    
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I'd pass out on the bedroom floor
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Sleep right through the calm before the storm

   
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My life was just an old routine
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 Every day the same damn thing
  
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I couldn't even tell I was alive
           
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I tell you, the high cost of livin'
      
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Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high

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 That southern Baptist parking lot

Was where I'd go to smoke my pot
                                     
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And sit there in my pickup truck and pray
    
And starin' at that giant cross
       
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Just reminded me that I was lost
       
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And it just never seemed to point the way

As soon as Jesus turned his back
                            
I'd found my way across the track
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 Lookin' just to score another deal
        
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With my back against that damn eight ball
  
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I didn't have to think or talk or feel

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 My life was just an old routine
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 Every day the same damn thing
  
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I couldn't even tell I was alive
           
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I tell you, the high cost of livin'
      
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Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high

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    My whole life went through my head

Layin' in that motel bed
                                   
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Watchin' as the cops kicked in the door
                           
I had a job and a piece of land
                            
My sweet wife was my best friend
                                      
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But I traded that for cocaine and a whore
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 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
     
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This prison is much colder
          
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Than that one that I was locked-up in just yesterday

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 My life is just an old routine
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 Every day the same damn thing
      
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Hell, I can't even tell if I'm alive
           
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I tell you, the high cost of livin'
      
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Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high
                                
I tell you, the high cost of livin'
      
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Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high

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     ...Just leave that stuff alone

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