Chords
The Life You Chose

Key: G

Introduction:  G   Bm   A  

difficulty
very easy |||||
 G             D                                       A 
Who are you if not the one I met
 G               D                                                   A 
One July night before the town went wet
 G               D                                     A 
Jack and coke in your mama's car
                                           G               D   A 
You were reading The Bell Jar
 G                 D                                                 A 
Where are you if you're not on your own
 G           D                                       A 
Always lonely, never quite alone
 G                     D                                                   A 
Where's the Jesus that you swore you'd find
                                     G                   D   A 
After running the last line
 G 
Are you living the life you chose
 Bm                                                               A 
Are you living the life that chose you
 G 
Are you taking the grown up dose
 Bm                                                           A 
Do you live with a man who knows you
 A                                               G 
Like I thought I did back then
 Bm                                   A                       G           Bm   A 
But I guess I never did, who did I kid?
 G         D                                         A 
I got lucky when I finished school
 G                   D                                     A 
Lost three fingers to a faulty tool
 G             D                                                   A 
Settled out of court, I'm no one's fool
                   G                 D   A 
You probably knew
 G                     D                                       A 
There's plenty left to make a getaway
 G                     D                                                         A 
I've spent enough nights in the bluegrass state
 G               D                                                                 A 
We could go somewhere where people stay up late
                         G                   D   A 
Or just somewhere new
 G 
Are you living the life you chose
 Bm                                                               A 
Are you living the life that chose you
 G 
Are you taking the grown up dose
 Bm                                                           A 
Do you live with a man who knows you
 A                                               G 
Like I thought I did back then
 Bm                                   A                       G           Bm   A 
But I guess I never did, who did I kid?
 Em                   A                       D                               G 
Here I am inviting you to throw your life away
     Em                     A                     D 
A victim of nostalgia maybe take away
 Em                         A                                 D                                 G 
Just tonight I realized that I am still in your backseat
 Em                             A                               D                     A 
Nothing I've had since has meant a thing to me
 G 
Are you living the life you chose
 Bm                                                               A 
Are you living the life that chose you
 G 
Are you taking the grown up dose
 Bm                                                           A 
Do you live with a man who knows you
 A                                               G 
Like I thought I did back then
 Bm                                   A                       G           Bm   A 
But I guess I never did, who did I kid?