High Cost of Living

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 been

Hangin' with my wilder friends

Lookin' for some other way to fly

And three days straight was no big feat

To get by on 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

I tell you, the high cost of living

Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high

That Southern Baptist parking lot

Was where I'd go to smoke my pot

And sit there in my pickup truck and pray

And starin' 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'd find my way across the tracks

Lookin' just to score another deal

With my back against that damn eight ball

I didn't have to think or talk or feel

And 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 living

Ain't nothin' like the cost of living 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

And my sweet wife was my best friend

But I traded that for cocaine and a whore

With my newfound 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 living

Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high

I tell you, the high cost of living

It ain't nothin' like the cost of living high

Just leave that stuff alone