[ti:High Cost Of Living] [ar:Jamey Johnson] [al:Promo Only Country Radio March] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]High Cost Of Living - Jamey Johnson [00:12.59]I was just a normal guy [00:14.15] [00:15.19]Life was just a nine to five [00:16.63] [00:17.81]With bills and pressure [00:18.75] [00:19.25]Piled up to the sky [00:20.38] [00:23.06]She never asked [00:23.94] [00:24.99]She knew I'd be [00:26.94]Hangin' with my wilder friends [00:28.18] [00:29.31]Looking for some other way to fly [00:30.87] [00:34.37]And three days straight was no big feat [00:36.19] [00:37.18]Could get by with no food or sleep [00:39.19] [00:40.25]And crazy was becoming my new norm [00:42.69] [00:45.19]I'd pass out on the bedroom floor [00:47.31] [00:48.25]And sleep right through the calm before the storm [00:50.44] [00:56.44]My life was just an old routine [00:58.62] [01:00.75]Every day the same damn thing [01:02.18] [01:02.94]I couldn't even tell I was alive [01:05.06] [01:06.87]I tell you [01:08.25]The high cost of livin' [01:09.80] [01:10.75]Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high [01:12.94] [01:13.56]That southern Baptist parking lot [01:14.93] [01:22.06]Is where I'd go to smoke my pot [01:24.12] [01:24.75]Sit there in my pickup truck and pray [01:26.49] [01:33.25]Staring at that giant cross [01:34.99] [01:35.68]Just reminded me that I was lost [01:37.49]And it just never seemed to point the way [01:39.30] [01:40.93]As soon as Jesus turned his back [01:43.12] [01:43.81]I find my way across the track [01:45.93] [01:46.55]Lookin' just to score another deal [01:49.70] [01:52.19]With my back against that damn eight ball [01:54.26] [01:55.00]I didn't have to think or talk or feel [01:58.63] [02:03.38]My life was just an old routine [02:05.38] [02:06.75]Every day the same damn thing [02:08.19] [02:09.25]I couldn't even tell I was alive [02:12.13] [02:13.94]I tell you [02:14.63] [02:15.13]The high cost of livin' [02:16.75] [02:17.69]Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high [02:20.44] [02:31.63]My whole life went through my head [02:33.63] [02:34.25]Layin' in that motel bed [02:36.00] [02:37.25]Watchin' as the cops kicked in the door [02:39.88] [02:42.50]I had a job and a piece of land [02:44.75] [02:45.65]My sweet wife was my best friend [02:47.21] [02:48.08]But I traded that for coc*ine and a whore [02:50.33] [02:53.77]With my new found sobriety [02:55.65] [02:56.39]I've got the time to sit and think [02:58.77] [02:59.40]Of all the things I had and threw away [03:02.46] [03:04.83]This prison is much colder than [03:06.90] [03:07.46]That one that I was locked up in just yesterday [03:09.70] [03:15.65]My life is just an old routine [03:18.09] [03:19.33]Every day the same damn thing [03:20.77] [03:21.84]Hell I can't even tell if I'm alive [03:24.52] [03:26.45]I tell you [03:27.15] [03:27.71]The high cost of livin' [03:29.27] [03:30.21]Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high [03:32.64] [03:33.21]I tell you [03:34.15] [03:38.40]The high cost of livin' [03:40.27] [03:41.08]Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high