Bon Jovi

Lyrics

• 1. Have A Nice Day

  Why, you wanna tell me how to live my life?
  Who, are you to tell me if it's black or white?
  Mama, can you hear me? Try to understand.
  Is innocence the difference between a boy and a man.
  My daddy lived the lie, it's just the price that he paid.
  Sacrificed his life, just slavin' away.

  Ohhh, if there's one thing I hang onto,
  That gets me through the night.
  I ain't gonna do what I don't want to,
  I'm gonna live my life.
  Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice,
  Standing on the ledge, I show the wind how to fly.
  When the world gets in my face,
  I say, Have A Nice Day.
  Have A Nice Day

  Take a look around you; nothing's what it seems
  We're living in the broken home of hopes and dreams,
  Let me be the first to shake a helping hand.
  Anybody brave enough to take a stand,
  I've knocked on every door, on every dead end street,
  Looking for forgiveness,
  what's left to believe?

  Ohhh, if there's one thing I hang onto,
  That gets me through the night.
  I ain't gonna do what I don't want to,
  I'm gonna live my life.
  Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice,
  Standing on the ledge, I show the wind how to fly.
  When the world gets in my face,
  I say, Have A Nice Day.
  Have A Nice Day.

  [Guitar Solo]

  Ohhh, if there's one thing I hang onto,
  That gets me through the night.
  I ain't gonna do what I don't want to,
  I'm gonna live my life.
  Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice,
  Standing on the ledge, I show the wind how to fly.
  When the world gets in my face,
  I say, Have A Nice Day.
  Have A Nice Day.
  Have A Nice Day.
  Have A Nice Day.
  Have A Nice Day.

  When The world keeps trying, to drag me down,
  I've gotta raise my hands, gonna stand my ground.
  Well I say, Have A Nice Day.
  Have A Nice Day
  Have A Nice Day

• 2. I Want To Be Loved

  I had a roof overhead
  Had shoes on my feet
  Sure I was fed, but no-one was there
  When I was in need, yeah

  So who am I now?
  Who do you want me to be?
  I can forgive you, but I won't relive you
  I aint the same scared kid I used to be

  [Chorus]
  I'm gonna live
  I'm gonna survive
  Don't want the world to pass me by
  I'm gonna dream
  I aint gonna die
  Thinking my life was just a lie
  I wanna be loved
  I wanna be loved

  I found a picture
  Our so-called family tree, yeah
  I broke all the branches, looking for answers
  Don't you know that aint how it's supposed to be

  [Chorus]
  I'm gonna live
  I'm gonna survive
  Don't want the world to pass me by
  I'm gonna dream
  I ain't gonna die
  Thinking my life was just a lie
  I wanna give
  I'm ready to try
  Willing to lay it on the line
  I wanna be loved
  I wanna be

  I aint gonna cry
  I dont wanna scream
  But i got so much left unsaid inside of me

  [Chorus]

  I just wanna be loved
  I wanna be loved

• 3. Welcome To Wherever You Are

  Maybe we're different, but we're still the same
  We all got the blood of Eden, running through our veins
  I know sometimes it's hard for you to see
  You come between just who you are and who you wanna be

  If you feel alone, and lost and need a friend
  Remember every new beginning, is some beginning's end

  [Chorus]
  Welcome to wherever you are
  This is your life, you made it this far
  Welcome, you gotta believe
  That right here right now, you're exactly where you're supposed to be
  Welcome, to wherever you are

  When everybody's in, and you're left out
  And you feel your drowning, in a shadow of a doubt
  Everyones a miracle in their own way
  Just listen to yourself, not what other people say

  When it seems you're lost, alone and feeling down
  Remember everybody's different
  Just take a look around

  [Chorus]

  Be who you want to, be who you are
  Everyones a hero, everyones a star

  When you wanna give up, and your hearts about to break
  Remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes

  [Chorus]

• 4. Who Says You Can't Go Home

  I spent 20 years trying to get out of this place
  I was looking for something I couldn't replace
  I was running away from the only thing I've ever known
  Like a blind dog without a bone
  I was a gypsy lost in the twilight zone
  I hijacked a rainbow and crashed into a pot of gold
  I been there, done thatand I ain't lookin' back on the seeds I've sown,
  Saving dimes, spending too much time on the telephone
  Who says you can't go home

  [Chorus]
  Who says you can't go home
  There's only one place they call me one of their own
  Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home
  Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact
  There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home
  It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright

  I went as far as I could, I tried to find a new face
  There isn't one of these lines that I would erase
  I lived a million miles of memories on that road
  With every step I take I know that I'm not alone
  You take the home from the boy, but not the boy from his home
  These are my streets, the only life I've ever known,
  who says you can't go home

  [Chorus]

  I been there, done thatand I ain't looking that
  It's been a long long road
  Feels like I never left, that's how the story goes

  It doesn't matter where you are, it doesn't matter where you go
  If it's a million miles aways or just a mile up the road
  Take it in, take it with you when you go,
  who says you can't go home

  [Chorus]

  It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright
  Who says you can't go home [x2]

• 5. Last Man Standing

  Come see a living, breathing spectacle
  Only seen right here
  It's your last chance in this lifetime
  The line forms at the rear
  You won't believe your eyes
  Your eyes will not believe your ears
  Get your money out, get ready
  Step right up, yeah you, come here

  You ain't seen nothing like him
  He's the last one of the breed
  You better hold on to your honey
  Honeys, don't forget to breathe
  Enter at your own risk, mister
  It might change the way you think
  There's no dancers, there's no diamonds
  No this boy he don't lip synch

  [Chorus]
  Here's the last man standing
  Step right up, he's the real thing
  The last chance of a lifetime
  Come and see, hear, feel, the real thing

  See those real live calloused fingers
  Wrapped around those guitar strings
  Kiss the lips where hurt has lingered
  It breaks the heart to hear him sing
  The songs were more than music They were pictures from the soul
  So keep your pseudo-punk, hip-hop, pop-rock junk
  And your digital downloads

  [Chorus]

  Take your seats now, folks. It's show time.
  Hey, Patrick hit the lights
  There's something in the air
  There's magic in the night
  Now here's the band, they really play
  I'll count the first one in
  I don't know where it's going
  We all know where it's been

  [Chorus x2]

• 6. Bells of Freedom

  I have walked all alone
  On these streets, I call home
  Streets of hope, streets of fear
  Through the sidewalk cracks
  Time dissapears
  I was lost, on my knees
  On the eve of defeat
  As i choked back the tears
  There's a silent scream no-one could hear

  So far away from everything, you know it's true
  Something inside that makes you know what you've got to do

  [Chorus]
  Ring the bells, ring them loud
  Let them ring here and now
  Just reach out and ring the bells of freedom
  When your world's crashing down like you've lost every round
  Stand your ground
  And ring the bells of freedom

  Up the steps of the church
  Through the fields in the dirt
  In the dark I have seen
  That the sun still shines for the one who believed

  So far away, so full of doubt, you needed proof
  Just close your eyes, and hear the sound inside of you

  [Chorus x3]

• 7. Wildflower

  She wakes up when I sleep
  To talk to ghosts like in the movies
  If you don't follow what I mean
  I sure don't mean to be confusing
  They say when she laughs she wants to cry
  She'll draw a crowd then try to hide
  Don't know if it's her or just my mind I'm losing

  Nobody knows a wildflower still grows
  By the side of the road
  And she don't need to need like the roses
  Wildflower

  That girl's sure put a spell on me
  Yeah, her voodoos hidden right behind her pocket
  If she's fire, I'm gasoline
  Yeah, we fight a lot but neither wants to stop it
  Well, she'll tell you she's an only child until you meet her brothers
  Swear she's never met the man she couldn't make into a lover

  [Chorus]
  Nobody knows a wildflower still grows
  By the side of the road
  And she don't need to need like the roses
  She's at home with the weeds
  And just as free as the night breeze
  She's got the cool of a shade tree
  She's growin' on me and I can't live with out her

  Yesterday's a memory
  Tomorrow's accessory
  That's her favorite quote about regret
  Well, she'll tell you about her pedigree
  With a sailor's mouth he'd have left at sea and it ain't over yet

  [Chorus]

  Nobody knows [x3]
  That's right

  She wakes up when I sleep
  To talk to ghosts like in the movies

• 8. Last Cigarette

  Regrets are all you left, on your lipstick stains
  Take a picture of our past there in that ashtray
  We had our fun, I used to light your flame
  Like the dancing smoke that rose we tried to find our way

  No one told me, she told me

  Your love's like one last cigarette
  Last cigarette, I will savor it
  The last cigarette
  Take it in and hold your breath, hope it never ends
  But when it's gone, it's gone
  The last cigarette

  Just to breathe reminds me of what used to be
  The smoke's the ghost that keeps you close when I can't sleep
  Don't ask the past to last, it's about to change
  The memories don't answer when I call your name

  No one told me, she told me

  [Chorus]
  Your love's like one last cigarette
  Last cigarette, I will savor it
  The last cigarette
  Take it in and hold your breath, hope it never ends
  But when it's gone, it's gone
  One last cigarette, last cigarette
  One I can't forget, the last cigarette
  Right there at my fingertips, got your taste still on my lips
  Right or wrong
  You're still gone, gone, gone

  No one told me, she told me
  You always lose the girl in a Brian Wilson world

  [Chorus]

  No one told me, she told me
  The Last Cigarette

• 9. I Am

  How you spend your minutes are what matters
  All tomorrows come from yesterday's
  When you're feeling broke and bruised and sometimes shattered
  Blew out the candles on the cake like everything's a big mistake
  It seems you always wait for life to happen
  And your last buck can't buy a lucky break
  If all we've got is us then lifes worth living
  And if you're in, you know I'm in
  I'm ready and I'm willing

  [Chorus]
  I Am
  When you think that no-one needs you
  Sees you or believes you
  No ones there to understand
  I Am
  I'll be there to be that someone
  When you think that no one, is there to hold your hand
  I Am

  We're just who we are, there's no pretending
  It takes a while to learn to live in your own skin
  Say a prayer that we might find our happy ending
  And if you're in, you know I'm in
  I'm ready and I'm willing

  [Chorus]

  And I aint got no halo hanging over my head
  I aint gonna judge you, I'm just here to love you
  I Am
  I Am

  [Chorus x2]

• 10. Complicated

  Take a look around, this is what I see
  Is there anybody else that feels like me?
  You sweat, you sweat
  You bleed, you bleed
  What you get aint what you see
  Up is down and black is white to me

  [Chorus]
  I'm complicated
  I get frustrated
  Right or wrong, love or hate it
  I'm complicated
  Can't sudate it
  I heard that song, but i won't play it
  It's alright
  It's okay
  You wouldn't want me any other way
  Momma, keep on praying, cause I aint changing
  I'm complicated

  Complicated, Yeah

  I'm smart enough to know what I don't know
  I'm fool enough to stay when I should go
  You work, you work
  You cry, you cry
  You watch your whole life pass you by
  Sometimes you gotta close your eyes to see

  [Chorus]

  Is there anybody out there
  Just like everybody out there
  Just want somebody out there just like me

  [Chorus]

  Is there anybody out there
  Just like everybody out there
  Just want somebody out there just like me [x2]

• 11. Novocaine

  You can take back all your secrets
  We'll divide up all the lies
  Keep all the pictures in their frames
  Cut me out, yeah I'll be fine
  Tell the neighbours all my feelings
  Go on and give away all my pride
  It's hard to laugh and cry, live and die every night

  Keep your rolodex of friends
  And all the remnants can be mind
  I guess there'll be no happy endings
  When once upon is doing time
  There's a different kind of meaning now
  To living on a prayer
  Some don't seem to notice
  And the rest don't seem to care

  [Chorus]
  I tell myself I (feel no pain)
  But I'm feeling the pain (walk away)
  Can't walk away
  I'm hanging on the ropes of hope
  It's getting hard to cope you know
  When you're the needle running
  through my veins
  I've changed my name to novocaine

  You put my favorite belongings in a box in the garage (let's get this straight)
  You burned my favorite sweats from high school
  Tried to sell my muscle car (that's not OK)
  You're mother's gonna visit for a couple months this year
  They say you do the crime, you do the time
  It's all so clear

  [Chorus]

  Well things ain't what they used to be
  It's a sleepless, self-help century
  I'm up to here with Dr. Phil and the modern man in me

  [Chorus x2]

  Novocaine [x3]

• 12. Story Of My Life

  Yesterdays a memory
  Another page in history
  You sell yourself on hopes and dreams
  That leaves you feeling sideways.
  Tripping over my own feet
  Trying to walk to my own beat
  Another car out on the street trying to find the Highway
  Yeah, Are you going my way?

  [Chorus]
  This is the story of my life
  And I write it everyday
  I know it isn't black and white
  And it's anything but grey
  I know that no I'm not alright, but I feel ok cos
  Anything can, everything can happen
  That's the story of my life

  I gonna write the melody
  That's gonna make history,
  And when I paint my masterpiece I swear I'll show you first
  There just ain't a way to see who and why or what will be
  Till now is then
  It's a mystery, it's a blessing and a curse
  Or something worse

  [Chorus]

  This is the story of my life
  And I write it everyday,
  And I hope you're by my side when I'm writing the last page

  [Chorus x2]

• 13. Dirty Little Secret

  I light a candle
  In the garden of love
  To blind the angels
  Looking down from above
  I want, I need
  The fruit of your VINE
  It tastes so bitter sweet
  Cause I know it's not mine
  I want to come inside

  Hit the lights
  And I'll come crawling through your window tonight
  Come on and send the sign
  I'll be your dirty little secret and you'll be mine
  You got me knock knock knocking at your door
  And I'll be coming back for more
  We made a promise and we'll keep it
  Our dirty little secret

  We act like strangers
  When you're holding his hand
  Cause there's a danger
  That we both understand
  We run like thieves
  Through the temple of sin
  Till we fall on our knees then you go back to him
  I want to feel alive

  Hit the lights
  And I'll come crawling to your window tonight
  Come on and send the sign
  I'll be your dirty little secret and you'll be mine
  You got me knock knock knocking at your door
  And I'll be coming back for more
  We made a promise and we keep it
  Our dirty little secret

  Ha

  Hit the lights
  And I'll come crawling through your window tonight
  Come on and send the sign
  I'll be your dirty little secret and you'll be mine
  You got me knock knock knocking at your door
  And I'll be coming back for more
  We made a promise and we'll keep it
  Our dirty little secret

  Our dirty little secret
  Our dirty little secret
  Our dirty little secret
  Our dirty little secret

• 14. Unbreakable

  You said you made me and you break me
  You said it ain't hard to shake me
  Uh huh, uh huh
  You threw me ever since you've taken me down
  You came like a rainy grey Monday
  I prayed like it was a Sunday
  You say, you say
  But I won't run away, I'll be standing my ground
  Seen all the screaming and fighting
  Lived through the screaming and lying
  I'm fine, you can't deny
  I'm unbreakable
  Unstoppable
  I'm invincible
  Come on bring it to me
  Cuz I'm always gonna be
  Unbreakable
  Reliable
  Undeniable
  Come on give it to me
  Cuz I'm always gonna be unbreakable
  Don't need the diamond cards or cold cash
  Don't need to sell my soul so don't ask
  Uh huh, uh huh
  Took a pass on the pass I'd be leaving right now
  Newsflash, I'm causing a commotion
  Jump back, I'm poetry in motion,
  Think fast, talk trash
  Well I ain't talking back but I'm calling you out
  No time for fussing and fighting
  Lived through the screaming and the lying
  I'm fine, you can't deny
  I'm unbreakable
  Unstoppable
  I'm invincible
  Come on bring it to me
  Cuz I'm always gonna be
  Unbreakable
  Reliable
  Undeniable
  Come on give it to me
  Cuz I'm always gonna be unbreakable
  I'm always goan be unbreakable

  Newsflash, I'm causing a commotion
  Jump back, I'm poetry in motion,
  I'm fine, you can't deny
  I'm unbreakable
  Unstoppable
  I'm invincible
  Come on bring it to me
  Cuz I'm always gonna be
  Unbreakable
  Reliable
  Undeniable
  Come on give it to me
  Cuz I'm always gonna be unbreakable
  Unstoppable
  I'm invincible
  Come on bring it to me
  Cuz I'm always gonna be
  Unbreakable
  Reliable
  Undeniable
  Come on give it to me
  Cuz I'm always gonna be unbreakable
  I will be unbreakable
  Unbreakable
  I will be unbreakable