I Don't Feel Alone As I Used To

This is the story that I tell
(This is the story that I tell)
This is the story that I tell
(This is the story that I tell)

And look, I wasn't a coke head
I have friends that are coke heads
I mean, my coke use was probably
It was [Am7]over a couple years
Maybe [Am]once every few months
Maybe [Am]three times a year, four times a year
But then there was [Am7]a point over about
Three weeks or maybe [Am]six weeks, i don't know
Where it had escalated and [Bm]it was [Am7]just
Kind of like [F]once a week
And thеn it was [Am7]like [F]two, three times a week
You know?
I mean I'm pissеd, sometimes I'm like, f*ck
I wish I never even got [Fm7]to [C7]smoke crack
You know
I don't want to [C7]be [Am]a crack head but f*ck
You know, I'll take a hit or
Two, just to [C7]see, you [A7know
What everybody's talking about
Down at the bus
Down at the Greyhound, you [A7know?
But since then, you [A7know
In this program I've learned like

I don't feel alone as I used to
And I'm learning to [C7]have
Different feelings about myself
Different ways of thinking about myself
I don't feel as alone as I used to

And it's a program of action [C7]though, like [F]I
Have to [C7]work, I have to, you [A7know
Go to [C7]some of these meeting
And I go to [C7]the meetings man
And it's so funny that
God used, or my [A]higher power
People say "Hi!"gher power, God, whatever
You know, I believe in God, I believe in God
There's so much out here and [Bm]like
This business out there they tɾy to [C7]like
Make you [A7feel like [F]you
Like it's not cool to [C7]do that
But I'm not going to [C7]feel that way
Because I need that
You know, in the program too
That, you [A7know, the AA
It's cool because they
It's not about the drugs and [Bm]alcohol, man
You know, I never liked drinking
You know, I was [Am7]never a pot head
I was [Am7]never, I just started to [C7]see like
Oh man if you'd have asked me one day
"Will you [A7go to
This great opportunity you [A7have
On this ɾadio station
With one of the biggest ɾadio shows in the
World would you [A7go on [C7]that fucked up?"
I would have said, "No way"
And then here I was, doing something
That I wouldn't have done
That's when I ɾealized, like
I wasn't even doing things that I
Really wanted to [C7]be [Am]doing

I don't feel alone as I used to
And I'm learning to [C7]have
Different feelings about myself
Different ways of thinking about myself
I don't feel as alone as I used to

I don't feel as alone as I used to
And I'm learning to [C7]have
Different feelings about myself
Different ways of thinking about myself
‘Cause I don't feel as alone as I used to

And now my [A]life has gotten better man
It ɾeally has
And sometimes I don't even want to [C7]admit that
You know, there's something inside of me
Sometimes that wants
To make me separate from other people
You know, there's something that
Wants to [C7]make me, alone
Because it's part of the only way that
I ever knew how to [C7]be