High Cost Of Living (Karaoke Lead Vocal Demo)-Backtrack Professional Karaoke Band

[ti:High Cost Of Living (Karaoke Lead Vocal Demo)(In the Style of Jamey Johnson)] [ar:Backtrack Professional Karaoke Band] [al:Karaoke - Best Male Country Hits V.5 (Karaoke Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.40]High Cost Of Living (Karaoke Lead Vocal Demo) (In the Style of Jamey Johnson) - Backtrack Professional Karaoke Band [00:03.51] [00:12.67]I was just a normal guy [00:13.91] [00:15.42]Life was just a nine to five [00:16.91] [00:17.82]With bills and pressure [00:19.19]Piled up to the sky [00:20.52] [00:23.68]She never asked [00:24.36] [00:24.92]She knew I'd be [00:26.52]Hangin' with my wilder friends [00:28.02] [00:29.08]Looking for some other way to fly [00:31.54] [00:34.58]And three days straight was no big feat [00:36.82] [00:37.42]Could get by with no food or sleep [00:39.12] [00:40.13]And crazy was becoming my new norm [00:42.10] [00:45.65]I'd pass out on the bedroom floor [00:47.45] [00:48.39]And sleep right through the calm before the storm [00:51.02] [00:56.62]My life was just an old routine [00:58.48] [01:00.03]Every day the same damn thing [01:01.99] [01:02.71]I couldn't even tell I was alive [01:04.49] [01:05.53]I tell you [01:07.28] [01:08.46]The high cost of livin' [01:10.78]Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high [01:13.28] [01:18.96]That southern Baptist parking lot [01:20.57] [01:21.99]Is where I'd go to smoke my pot [01:24.17] [01:24.82]Sit there in my pickup truck and pray [01:27.23] [01:30.15]Staring at that giant cross [01:31.70] [01:32.92]Just reminded me that I was lost [01:34.87] [01:35.62]And it just never seemed to point the way [01:38.39] [01:41.31]As soon as Jesus turned his back [01:43.05] [01:43.81]I find my way across the track [01:45.78] [01:46.65]Lookin' just to score another deal [01:49.89] [01:52.46]With my back against that damn eight ball [01:55.28]I didn't have to think or talk or feel [01:59.25] [02:03.67]My life was just an old routine [02:05.55] [02:06.98]Every day the same damn thing [02:08.80] [02:09.44]I couldn't even tell I was alive [02:11.53] [02:12.30]I tell you [02:14.32] [02:15.34]The high cost of livin' [02:17.56]Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high [02:20.17] [02:32.04]My whole life went through my head [02:33.91] [02:34.84]Layin' in that motel bed [02:36.27] [02:37.39]Watchin' as the cops kicked in the door [02:40.02] [02:42.69]I had a job and a piece of land [02:45.08] [02:45.81]My sweet wife was my best friend [02:47.48] [02:48.29]But I traded that for coc*ine and a whore [02:50.77] [02:53.86]With my new found sobriety [02:55.24] [02:56.67]I've got the time to sit and think [02:58.57] [02:59.58]Of all the things I had and threw away [03:02.74] [03:05.07]This prison is much colder than [03:06.90] [03:07.78]That one that I was locked up in just yesterday [03:10.32] [03:16.36]My life is just an old routine [03:17.97] [03:19.70]Every day the same damn thing [03:22.03]Hell I can't even tell if I'm alive [03:24.43] [03:26.73]I tell you [03:27.30] [03:28.08]The high cost of livin' [03:30.24]Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high [03:32.76] [03:37.83]I tell you [03:38.38] [03:39.13]The high cost of livin' [03:41.31]Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high