High Cost Of Living Lyrics - That Lonesome Song - Jamey Johnson

I was just a normal guy 

Life was just a nine to five 

With bills and pressure 

Piled up to the sky 

She never asked 

She knew I'd be 

Hangin' with my wilder friends 

Looking for some other way to fly 

And three days straight was no big feat 

Could get by with no food or sleep 

And crazy was becoming my new norm 

I'd pass out on the bedroom floor 

And sleep right through the calm before the storm 

My life was just an old routine 

Every day the same damn thing 

I couldn't even tell I was alive 

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I tell you 

The high cost of livin' 

Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high 

That southern Baptist parking lot 

Is where I'd go to smoke my pot 

Sit there in my pickup truck and pray 

Staring at that giant cross 

Just reminded me that I was lost 

And it just never seemed to point the way 

As soon as Jesus turned his back 

I find my way across the track 

Lookin' just to score . . . another deal 

With my back against that damn eight ball 

I didn't have to think or talk . . . or feel 

My life was just an old routine 

Every day the same damn thing 

I couldn't even tell I was alive 

I tell you 

The high cost of livin' 

Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high 

My whole life went through my head 

Layin' in that motel bed 

Watchin' as the cops kicked in the door 

I had a job and a piece of land 

My sweet wife was my best friend 

But I traded that for cocaine and a whore 

With my new found sobriety 

I've got the time to sit and think 

Of all the things I had . . . and threw away 

This prison is much colder than 

That one that I was locked up in just yesterday 

My life is just an old routine 

Every day the same damn thing 

Hell I can't even tell if I'm alive 

I tell you 

The high cost of livin' 

Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high 

I tell you 

The high cost of livin' 

Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high