Bon Jovi

Lyrics

• 1. It's My Life

  This ain't a song for the broken-hearted
  No silent prayer for the faith-departed
  I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
  You're gonna hear my voice
  When I shout it out loud

  [Chorus:]
  It's my life
  It's now or never
  I ain't gonna live forever
  I just want to live while I'm alive
  (It's my life)
  My heart is like an open highway
  Like Frankie said
  I did it my way
  I just wanna live while I'm alive
  It's my life

  This is for the ones who stood their ground
  For Tommy and Gina who never backed down
  Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake
  Luck ain't even lucky
  Got to make your own breaks

  [Chorus:]
  It's my life
  And it's now or never
  I ain't gonna live forever
  I just want to live while I'm alive
  (It's my life)
  My heart is like an open highway
  Like Frankie said
  I did it my way
  I just want to live while I'm alive
  'Cause it's my life

  Better stand tall when they're calling you out
  Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down

  [Chorus:]
  It's my life
  And it's now or never
  'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
  I just want to live while I'm alive
  (It's my life)
  My heart is like an open highway
  Like Frankie said
  I did it my way
  I just want to live while I'm alive

  [Chorus:]
  It's my life
  And it's now or never
  'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
  I just want to live while I'm alive
  (It's my life)
  My heart is like an open highway
  Like Frankie said
  I did it my way
  I just want to live while I'm alive
  'Cause it's my life!

• 2. Livin' On A Prayer

  Once upon a time
  Not so long ago

  Tommy used to work on the docks
  Unions been on strike
  Hes down on his luck...its tough, so tough
  Gina works the diner all day
  Working for her man, she brings home her pay
  For love - for love

  She says weve got to hold on to what weve got
  cause it doesnt make a difference
  If we make it or not
  Weve got each other and thats a lot
  For love - well give it a shot

  Chorus:
  Whooah, were half way there
  Livin on a prayer
  Take my hand and well make it - I swear
  Livin on a prayer

  Tommys got his six string in hock
  Now hes holding in what he used
  To make it talk - so tough, its tough
  Gina dreams of running away
  When she cries in the night
  Tommy whispers baby its okay, someday

  Weve got to hold on to what weve got
  cause it doesnt make a difference
  If we make it or not
  Weve got each other and thats a lot
  For love - well give it a shot

  Chorus

  Weve got to hold on ready or not
  You live for the fight when its all that youve got

  Chorus

• 3. You Give Love A Bad Name

  An angels smile is what you sell
  You promise me heaven, then put me through hell
  Chains of love got a hold on me
  When passions a prison, you cant break free

  Youre a loaded gun
  Theres nowhere to run
  No one can save me
  The damage is done

  Chorus:
  Shot through the heart
  And youre to blame
  You give love a bad name
  I play my part and you play your game
  You give love a bad name
  You give love a bad name

  Paint your smile on your lips
  Blood red nails on your fingertips
  A school boys dream, you act so shy
  Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye

  Youre a loaded gun
  Theres nowhere to run
  No one can save me
  The damage is done

  Chorus

• 4. Keep The Faith

  Mother mother tell your children
  That their time has just begun
  I have suffered for my anger
  There are wars that cant be won

  Father father please believe me
  I am laying down my guns
  I am broken like an arrow
  Forgive me
  Forgive your wayward son

  Everybody needs somebody to love
  (mother, mother)
  Everybody needs somebody to hate
  (please believe me)
  Everybodys bitching
  cause they cant get enough
  And its hard to hold on
  When theres no one to lean on

  Faith: you know youre gonna live thru the rain
  Lord you got to keep the faith
  Faith: dont let your love turn to hate
  Right now we got to
  Keep the faith
  Keep the faith
  Keep the faith
  Lord we got to keep the faith

  Tell me baby when I hurt you
  Do you keep it all inside
  Do you tell me als forgiven
  And just hide behind your pride

  Everybody needs somebody to love
  (mother, father)
  Everybody needs somebody to hate
  (please dont leave me)
  Everybodys bleeding
  cause the times are tough
  Well its hard to be strong
  When theres no one to dream on

  Faith: you know youre gonna live thru the rain
  Lord you got to keep the faith
  Now you know is not too late
  Oh you got to keep the faith
  Faith: dont let your love turn to hate
  Right now we got to
  Keep the faith
  Keep the faith
  Keep the faith
  Lord we got to keep the faith

  Walking in the footsteps
  Of societys lies
  I dont like what I see no more
  Sometimes I wish that I was blind
  Sometimes I wait forever

  To stand out in the rain
  So no one sees me cryin
  Trying to wash away the pain
  Mother father

  Theres things Ive done I cant erase
  Every night we fall from grace

  Its hard with the world in yours face
  Trying to hold on, trying to hold on

  Faith: you know youre gonna live thru the rain
  Lord you got to keep the faith
  Faith: dont let your love turn to hate
  Right now we got to keep the faith
  Faith: now its not too late
  Try to hold on, trying to hold on
  Keep the faith

• 5. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night

  Hey, man Im alive Im takin each day and night at a time
  Im feelin like a monday but someday Ill be saturday night

  Hey, my name is jim, where did I go wrong
  My lifes a bargain basement, all the good shits gone
  I just cant hold a job, where do I belong
  Im sleeping in my car, my dreams move on

  My name is billy jean, my love was bought and sold
  Im only sixteen, I feel a hundred years old
  My foster daddy went, took my innocence away
  The street life aint much better, but at least I get paid

  And tuesday just might go my way
  It cant get worse than yesterday
  Thursdays, fridays aint been kind
  But somehow Ill survive

  Hey man Im alive Im takin each day and night at a time
  Yeah Im down, but I know Ill get by
  Hey hey hey hey, man gotta live my life
  Like I aint got nothin but this roll of the dice
  Im feelin like a monday, but someday Ill be saturday night

  Now I cant say my name, and tell you where I am
  I want to roll myself away, dont know if I can

  I wish that I could be in some other time and place
  With someone elses soul, someone elses face

  Oh, tuesday just might go my way
  It cant get worse than yesterday
  Thursdays, fridays aint been kind
  But somehow Ill survive

  Hey, man Im alive Im takin each day and night at a time
  Yeah Im down, but I know Ill get by
  Hey hey hey hey, man gotta live my life
  Im gonna pick up all the pieces and whats left of my pride
  Im feelin like a monday, but someday Ill be saturday night

  Saturday night here we go
  Some day Ill be saturday night
  Ill be back on my feet, Ill be doin alright
  It may not be tomorrow baby, thats ok
  I aint goin down, gonna find a way, hey hey hey

  Hey man Im alive Im takin each day and night at a time
  Yeah, Im down, but I know Ill get by
  Hey hey hey hey, man, gotta live my life
  Like I aint got nothin but this roll of the dice
  Im feelin like a monday, but someday Ill be saturday night
  Im feelin like a monday, but someday Ill be saturday night
  Saturday night __________,all right, all right
  Saturday night

• 6. Rockin' In The Free World

  There's colors on the street
  Red, white and blue
  People shufflin' their feet
  People sleepin' in their shoes
  But there's a warming sign on the road ahead
  There's lot of people sayin' we'd better off dead
  Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
  So I try to forget it, any way I can.

  Keep on rockin' in the free world
  Keep on rockin' in the free world
  Keep on rockin' in the free world
  Keep on rockin' in the free world

  I see a woman in the night
  With a baby in her hand
  Under an old street light
  Near a garbage can
  Now she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hit
  he hates her life and what she's done to it
  There's one more kid that will never go to school
  Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

  Keep on rockin' in the free world
  Keep on rockin' in the free world
  Keep on rockin' in the free world
  Keep on rockin' in the free world

  We got a thousand points of light
  For the homeless man
  We got a kinder, gentler,
  Machine gun hand
  We got department stores and toilet paper
  Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
  Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive
  Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive

  Keep on rockin' in the free world
  Keep on rockin' in the free world
  Keep on rockin' in the free world
  Keep on rockin' in the free world

• 7. Something To Believe In

  I lost all faith in my God, in his religion too
  I told the angels they could sing their songs to someone new
  I lost all trust in my friends
  I watched my heart turn to stone
  I thought that I was left to walk this wicked world alone

  Tonight I'll dust myself off
  Tonight I'll suck my gut in
  I'll face the night and I'll pretend
  I got something to believe in

  And I had lost touch with reason
  I watched life criticize the truth
  Been waiting for a miracle
  I know you have too

  Though I know I won't win
  I'll take this one on the chin
  We'll raise a toast and I'll pretend
  I got something to believe in

  If I don't believe in Jesus, how can I believe the Pope
  If I don't believe in heroin, how can I believe in dope
  If there's nothing but survival, how can I believe in sin
  In a world that gives you nothing
  We need something to believe in

  If I don't believe in Jesus, how can I believe the Pope
  If I don't believe in heroin, how can I believe in dope
  If there's nothing but survival, how can I believe in sin
  In a world that gives you nothing
  We need something to believe in

• 8. Wanted Dead Or Alive

  It's all the same, only the names will change
  Everyday it seems we're wasting away
  Another place where the faces are so cold
  I'd drive all night just to get back home

  [Chorus:]
  I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
  I'm wanted dead or alive
  Wanted dead or alive

  Sometimes I sleep, sometimes it's not for days
  And the people I meet always go their separate ways
  Sometimes you tell the day
  By the bottle that you drink
  And times when you're alone all you do is think

  [Chorus]

  I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
  I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back
  I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall
  I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all

  I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
  I'm wanted dead or alive
  I'm a cowboy, I got the night on my side
  I'm wanted dead or alive
  And I ride, dead or alive
  I still drive, dead or alive
  Dead or alive [x4]

• 9. Runaway

  On the street where you live girls talk about their social lives
  Theyre made of lipstick, plastic and paint, a touch of sable in their eyes
  All your life all youve asked whens your daddy gonna talk to you
  You were living in another world tryin to get your message through.

  No one heard a single word you said.
  They should have seen it in your eyes
  What was going around your heart.

  Chorus:
  Ooh, shes a little runaway.
  Daddys girl learned fast
  All those things he couldnt say.
  Ooh, shes a little runaway.

  A different line every night guaranteed to blow your mind
  See you out on the streets, call me for a wild time
  So you sit home alone cause theres nothing left that you can do
  Theres only pictures hung in the shadows left there to look at you

  You know she likes the lights at nights on the neon broadway signs
  She dont really mind, its only love she hoped to find

  Repeat chorus

  No one heard a single word she said
  They should have seen it in your eyes
  What was going around your heart

  Ooh, shes a little runaway
  Daddys girl learned fast
  All those things he couldnt say

  Ooh, shes a little runaway
  Daddys girl learned fast
  Now she works the night away

  Ooh, shes a little runaway
  Daddys girl learned fast
  All those things he couldnt say

  Ooh, shes a little runaway
  Daddys girl learned fast
  Now she was the night away

• 10. In And Out Of Love

  Young and wired
  Set to explode in the heat
  You wont tire
  Cause baby was born with the beat
  Take you higher than youve ever known
  Then drive you down to your knees
  Ill pick you up when youve had enough
  You been burned baby lessons learned

  Chorus:
  In and out of love
  Hear what Im sayin
  In and out of love
  Its the way that were playing
  In and out of love
  Too much is never enough
  Shes gonna get ya

  Running wild
  When me and my boys hit the streets
  Right on time
  Shes here to make my night complete
  Then Im long gone I got another show
  One more town, one mile to go
  One endless night of fantasy
  Is all she left of her with me

  Chorus

• 11. I Don't Like Mondays

  The silicon chip inside her head,
  Got switched to overload
  Nobody's gonna go to school today,
  She's gonna make them stay at home,
  And Daddy doesn't understand it,
  He always said she was good as gold,
  And he can see (no reasons)
  'Cause there are (no reasons)
  What reason do you need to be shown

  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
  I want to shoot the whole day down

  The telex machine is kept so clean
  And it types to a waiting world,
  Her Mother feels so shocked
  Father's world is rocked
  And their thoughts turn to
  Their own little girl
  Well sweet 16 ain't she peachy keen,
  And it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
  There could be (no reasons)
  Because there are (no reasons)
  What reasons do you need, oh,

  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
  I'm gonna shoot the whole day down, down, down
  I'll shoot it all down

  And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
  She wants to play with her toys a while
  And school is out, oh and soon we will learn that
  the lesson today is how to die
  And then the bullhorn crackles,
  And the captain tackles
  with the problems and the how's and why's
  and he can see (no reasons)
  'Cause there are (no reasons)
  What reasons do you need to die, die, oh

  And the silicon chip inside her head
  gets switched to overload, oh
  and nobody's gonna go to school today
  She's gonna make them stay at home
  And Daddy doesn't understand it
  He always said she was good as gold
  And he could see (no reasons)
  'Cause there are (no reasons)
  What reason do you need to be shown

  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
  (Tell me why) I don't like , I don't like
  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
  (Tell me why) I don't like , I don't like
  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
  (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays

• 12. Just Older

  Hey, man, it's been a while
  Do you remember me?
  When I hit the streets I was 17
  A little wild, a little green
  I've been up and down and in between
  After all these years and miles of memories
  I'm still chasing dreams
  But I ain't looking over my shoulder

  [Chorus:]
  I like the bed I'm sleeping in
  It's just like me, it's broken in
  It's not old - just older
  Like a favorite pair of torn blue jeans
  This skin I'm in it's alright with me
  It's not old - just older

  It's good to see your face
  You ain't no worse for wear
  Breathing that California air
  When we took on the world
  When we were young and brave
  We got secrets that we'll take to the grave
  And we're standing here shoulder to shoulder

  [Chorus:]
  I like the bed I'm sleeping in
  It's just like me, it's broken in
  It's not old - just older
  Like a favorite pair of torn blue jeans
  This skin I'm in it's alright with me
  It's not old - just older

  I'm not old enough to sing the blues
  But I wore the holes in the soles of these shoes
  You can roll the dice 'til they call your bluff
  But you can't win until you're not afraid to lose

  [Solo]

  Well, I look in the mirror
  I don't hate what I see
  There's a few more lines staring back at me
  Now the nights has grown a little colder
  Hey man, I gotta run
  Now you take care
  If you see coach T. Tell him I've cut my hair
  I've kept my faith
  I still belive I'm just...
  Ha

  [Chorus:]
  I like the bed I'm sleeping in
  It's just like me, it's broken in
  It's not old - just older
  Like a favorite pair of torn blue jeans
  This skin I'm in it's alright with me
  It's not old - just older

• 13. Something For The Pain

  Happiness, its been no friend to me
  But forever after aint what its all cracked up to be
  Yeah, I had a taste, you were my fantasy
  But I lost my faith when I hit reality
  I dont need no guru to tell me what to do
  When your feeling like a headline on
  Yesterdays news

  Come on, come on, come on
  Give me something for the pain
  Give me something for the blues
  Give me something for the pain when
  I feel Ive been danglin from a hang-mans noose
  Give me something I can use
  To get me through the night
  Make me feel all right,
  Something like you

  Loneliness has found a home in me
  My suitcase and guitar are my only family
  Ive tried to need someone, like they needed me
  I opened up my heart, but all I did was bleed
  I dont need no lover, just to get screwed
  They dont make a bandage, thats going to cover my bruise

  Come on, come on, come on
  Give me something for the pain
  Give me something for the blues
  Give me something for the pain when
  I feel Ive been danglin from a hang-mans noose
  Give me something I can use
  To get me through the night
  Make me feel all right,
  Something like you

  Pull me under (help Im falling)
  Run through my veins (night is calling)
  To a place (feels like Im flying)
  Where I feel no pain (christ Im dying)
  Be the pillow under my head
  Cover me when Im in your bed
  Take me higher than Ive ever been
  Take me down and back again
  Come to me, be my disguise
  Open your coat, let me crawl inside
  Come on, come on, come on

  Come on, come on, come on
  Give me something for the pain
  Give me something for the blues
  Give me something for the pain when
  I feel Ive been danglin from a hang-mans noose
  Give me something I can use
  To get me through the night
  Make me feel all right,
  Something like you

• 14. Bad Medicine

  I ain't got a fever got a permanent disease
  It'll take more than a doctor to prescribe a remedy
  I got lots of money but it isn't what I need
  Gonna take more than a shot to get this poison out of me
  I got all the symptoms count 'em 1,2,3

  First you need
  That's what you get for falling in love
  Then you bleed
  You get a little but it's never enough
  On your knees
  That's what you get for falling in love
  And now this boy's addicted cause your kiss is the drug

  Your love is like bad madicine
  Bad medicine is what I need
  Shake it up, just like bad madicine
  There ain't no doctor that can
  Cure my disease

  Bad, bad medicine
  Bad, bad medicine

  I don't need no needle
  To be giving me a thrill
  And I don't need no anesthesia
  Or a nurse to bring a pill
  I got a dirty down addiction
  It doesn't leave a track
  I got a jone for your affection
  Like a monkey on my back

  There ain't no paramedic
  Gonna save this heart attack

  When you need
  That's what you get for falling in love
  Then you bleed
  You get a little but it's never enough
  On your knees
  That's what you get for falling in love
  Now I'm addicted and your kiss is the drug

  Your love is like bad madicine
  Bad medicine is what I need
  Shake it up, just like bad madicine
  So let's play doctor, baby
  Cure my disease

  Bad, bad medicine
  Bad, bad medicine

  [Solo]

  I need a respirator cause I'm running out of breath
  You're an all night generator wrapped is stockings and a dress
  When you find your medicine you take what you can get
  Cause if there's something better baby well thay haven't found it yet

  Your love is like bad madicine
  Bad medicine is what I need
  Shake it up, just like bad madicine
  There ain't no doctor that can
  Cure my disease

  Your love is like bad madicine
  Bad medicine is what I need
  Shake it up, just like bad madicine
  Your love's the potion that
  Can cure my disease

  Bad, bad medicine
  Bad, bad medicine

• 15. One Wild Night 2001

  It's a hot night, the natives are restless
  We're sweating by the light of the moon
  There's a voodoo mojo brewing at the go-go
  That could knock a witch off her broom

  We slither on in and shed our skin
  Make our way into the bump and the grind
  So I'm passing by, she gives me the eye
  So I stop to give her a light

  [Chorus:]
  One wild night (blinded by the moonlight)
  One wild night (24 hours of midnight)
  One wild night (I stepped into the twilight zone
  And she left my heart with vertigo)
  One wild, one wild, one wild, one wild night

  Havin' as much fun as you can in your clothes
  Margarita had me feelin' alright
  It just might be that I found religion
  I've been on my knees for half of the night
  Then I'm rolling the bones with Jimmy 'no dice'
  Gonna take him for a couple weeks' pay
  Man, if you lose this roll I take your girlfriend home
  So I stopped
  But you're not gonna believe who comes walking out

  [Chorus:]
  One wild night (blinded by the moonlight)
  One wild night (24 hours of midnight)
  One wild night (I stepped into the twilight zone
  And she left my heart with vertigo)
  One wild night (hey, c'est la vie)
  One wild night (welcome to the party)
  One wild night (life is for the living so
  You gotta live it up, come on let's go)
  One wild, one wild, one wild, one wild night

  [Guitar solo]

  [Chorus:]
  One wild night (blinded by the moonlight)
  One wild night (24 hours of midnight)
  One wild night (I stepped into the twilight zone
  And she left my heart with vertigo)
  One wild night (hey, c'est la vie)
  One wild night (welcome to the party)
  One wild night (life if for the living so
  You gotta live it up, come on let's go)
  One wild, one wild, one wild, one..

  One wild night (blinded by the moonlight)
  One wild night (24 hours of midnight)
  One wild night (I stepped into the twilight zone)
  For one wild night
  One wild night (hey,c'est la vie)
  One wild night (welcome to the party)
  One wild night (life is for the living)
  All we've got is one wild night

  One wild night [4x]
  One wild night blinded by the moonlight
  One wild night 24 hours of midnight
  One wild night stepped into the twilight zone for
  One wild, one wild, one wild, one wild night.