High Cost Of Living-Jamey Johnson

[00:00.00] [00:21.00] [00:21.85]I was just a normal guy [00:24.59]Life was just a nine to five [00:27.14]With bills and pressure [00:28.57]Piled up to the sky [00:32.45]She never asked [00:33.99]She knew I’d be [00:35.74]Hangin’ with my wilder friends [00:38.63]Looking for some other way to fly [00:41.46] [00:43.76]And three days straight was no big feat [00:46.56]Could get by with no food or sleep [00:49.26]And crazy was becoming my new norm [00:53.15] [00:54.62]I’d pass out on the bedroom floor [00:57.75]And sleep right through the calm before the storm [01:01.11] [01:05.48]My life was just an old routine [01:08.82]Every day the same damn thing [01:11.62]I couldn’t even tell I was alive [01:15.04] [01:16.28]I tell you [01:17.63]The high cost of livin’ [01:19.73]Ain’t nothing like the cost of livin’ high [01:23.11] [01:28.16]That southern Baptist parking lot [01:31.00]Is where I’d go to smoke my pot [01:33.87]Sit there in my pickup truck and pray [01:37.61]Staring at that giant cross [01:42.21]Just reminded me that I was lost [01:45.17]And it just never seemed to point the way [01:48.31] [01:50.45]As soon as Jesus turned his back [01:53.36]I find my way across the track [01:56.74]Lookin’ just to score . . . another deal [02:01.55]With my back against that damn eight ball [02:04.50]I didn’t have to think or talk . . . or feel [02:08.39] [02:12.79]My life was just an old routine [02:15.77]Every day the same damn thing [02:18.66]I couldn’t even tell I was alive [02:22.07] [02:23.20]I tell you [02:24.52]The high cost of livin’ [02:26.31]Ain’t nothing like the cost of livin’ high [02:30.17] [02:41.23]My whole life went through my head [02:44.21]Layin’ in that motel bed [02:46.71]Watchin’ as the cops kicked in the door [02:50.13] [02:52.05]I had a job and a piece of land [02:54.92]My sweet wife was my best friend [02:57.58]But I traded that for ******* and a whore [03:00.84] [03:03.32]With my new found sobriety [03:05.87]I’ve got the time to sit and think [03:08.67]Of all the things I had . . . and threw away [03:12.44] [03:14.20]This prison is much colder than [03:16.90]That one that I was locked up in just yesterday [03:21.33] [03:25.39]My life is just an old routine [03:28.27]Every day the same damn thing [03:31.23]Hell I can’t even tell if I’m alive [03:34.61] [03:35.84]I tell you [03:36.77]The high cost of livin’ [03:39.21]Ain’t nothing like the cost of livin’ high [03:42.68] [03:47.06]I tell you [03:48.32]The high cost of livin’ [03:50.39]Ain’t nothing like the cost of livin’ high [03:54.17] [03:54.59] [05:45.31]