The Life You Chose

	  		Intro: G Bm A 


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? 



Bridge: 
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?