Bon Jovi Album

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,
It gets me through the night.
I aint 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'll 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, look its what he sees.
We're living in a broken home of hopes and dreams,
Let me be the first to shake a helping hand.
Everybody, pray enough to take a stand,
I 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,
It 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'll 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,
It gets me through the night.
I aint 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'll 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

I had a roof over head
Had shoes on my feet
Yeah 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 ain't the same scared kid I use to be

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 want to be loved
I want to 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 it ain't how it supposed to be

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 want to be loved
I want to be!

I ain't gonna cry, I don't want to scream
But I got so much left unsaid inside of me
Taken from
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 want to be loved
I want to be loved
I just want to be loved
I want to be loved
I want to be loved

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

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

Welcome to wherever you are
This is your life, you made it this far
Welcome, you got to 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 drowning in a shadow of the dawn
Everyone's 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

Welcome to wherever you are
This is your life, you made it this far
Welcome, you got to believe
That right here right now you're exactly where you're supposed to be
Be who you want to be, be who you are
Everyone's a hero, everyone's a star

When you want to give up and your heart's about to break
Remember that you're perfect, God's make no mistakes

Welcome to wherever you are
This is your life, you made it this far
Welcome, you got to believe
That right here right now you're exactly where you're supposed to be
Welcome to wherever you are
This is your life, you made it this far
(I say welcome) Welcome to wherever you are

I spent 20 years trying to get out of this place
I was lookin' for something I couldn't replace
I was runnin' away from the only thing I've ever known
And like a blind dog without a bone
I was a gypsyu lost in the twilight zone

I hijacked a rainbow and crashed into a pot of gold
I've been there, done that, I ain't lookin' that
The seeds I've sown, saving dimes, spending too much time on the telephone...
Who says you can't go home...

Who says you can't go home
There's only one place that 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 around all around the world and
that's 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...

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 left a million mile of memories on that road
And 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

Who says you can't go home
There's only one place that 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 around all around the world and
that's 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...

[Guitar Solo]

I've been there, done that, I ain't looking that
It's been a long long road
Feels like I've never left, that's how the story goes
It doesn't matter where you are, 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
Who says you can't go home
Taken from
There's only one place that 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 around all around the world and
that's a matter of fact
There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home

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

You ain't seen nothing like him
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 hart to hear him sing
Thesongs were more than music
They were pictures from the soul
Se keep your pseudo-punk, hip-hop, pop-rock junk
And your digital downloads

[Chorus]

Take your seats now, folks. It's showtime
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 gone
Well all know where it's been

[Chorus]

The last man standing
Step right up, he's the real thing
The last chance of a lifetime

I have walked all alone on these streets I call home
Streets of hope, streets of fear
Through the sidewalk cracks, time disappears
I was lost on my knees only if hugged the field
As I chocked back to 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 do what you got to do

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 the 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 believe

So far away, so full of doubt
You needed proof
Just close your eyes and hear the sound inside of you
Taken from
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 the ground
And ring the bells of freedom

[Solo]

Ring the bells, ring them loud
Let'em 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 the ground
And ring the bells of freedom

Ring the bells, ring them loud
Let them ring here and now

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

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 favourite quote about regret
Well, she'll tell you 'bout her pedigree
With a sailor's mouth he'd have left at sea and it ain't over yet

Nobody knows...
Nobody knows... a wildflower still grows
By the side of the road
And she don't need to need like the roses, the roses
She feels 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 without her
But nobody knows...
Nobody knows...
Nobody knows...
Nobody knows...
That's right...

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

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

How you spend your minutes are what matters
All tomorrows come from yesterdays
When you're feeling broke and bruised and sometimes shattered
Blow 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 got is us, then life's worth living
And if you're in, you know I'm in,
I'm ready and I'm willing

I am, when you think that no one needs you, sees you or believes you
no one's 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

I am, when you think that no one needs you, sees you or believes you
no one's 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

I ain't got no halo hanging over my head
I ain't gonna judge you
I just want to love you
I am, I am

I am, when you think that no one needs you, sees you or believes you
no one's there to understand
I am, I'll be there to be that someone

Take a look around this is what I see.
Is there anybody that feels like me? Yeah...
I sweat you sweat, you bleed you bleed.
what you get ain't what you see.
Up is down and black is white to me.

I'm complicated, I get frustrated.
Right or wrong, loved or hated.
Complicated, I get sedated.
I heard that song but I won't play it

It's alright, It's ok.
You wouldn't want it any other way.
I keep on praying, 'cause I am changing.
I'm complicated, yeah.
Complicated, yeah.

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

I'm complicated, I get frustrated.
Right or wrong, loved or hated.
Complicated, I get sedated.
I heard that song but I won't play it

It's alright, It's ok.
You wouldn't want it any other way.
I keep on praying, 'cause I am changing.
I'm complicated, yeah.
Complicated, yeah.

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

I'm complicated, I get frustrated.
Right or wrong, loved or hated.
Complicated, I get sedated.
I heard that song but I won't play it

(Complicated)
Is there anybody out there? (Complicated)
Just like everybody out there? (Complicated)
Just want somebody out there just like me.

(Complicated)
Is there anybody out there? (Complicated)
Just like everybody out there? (Complicated)
Just want somebody out there just like me.

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 neighbors all my feelings
Go on and give away my pride
It's hard to laugh and cry
Live and die, every night

Keep your whole index of frames
And all the reminiscence can be mine
I guess there'll be no happy endings
When once upon is due in time
There's a different kind of meaning now to livin' on a prayer
Oh some don't seem to notice and the rest don't seem to care

I tell myself I ain't no dying
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
Another 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 highschool
Try to sell my muscle car (that's not okay)
Your mother's gonna visit for a couple months this year
They say you do the crime, do the time
It's all so clear

I tell myself I ain't no dying
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
Another needle that's running through my veins
I've changed my name to novocaine (feel no pain)
Novocaine

Things ain't what they used to be
It's a sleepless

I tell myself to feel no pain
But I'm feelin' the pain (walk away)
Can't walk away

I'm hanging on the ropes of hope
It's getting hard to cope you know
Another needle that's running through my veins
I've changed my name to novocaine (feel no pain)

Yesterday's a memory
Another page, a history
Sell yourself all hopes and dreams
That lead you feeling side-ways

Trippin' over my own feet
Tryin' to walk to my own beat
Another car out on the street,
Tryin' to find the highway
Hey are you goin' my way

This is the story of my life
And I, ride it everyday
I know, it isn't black and white
And it's anything but grey
I know, you know I'm not allright
But I, be okay 'cause anything can
Everything can happen
That's the story of my life

Guitar solo

I'm gonna write the melody
That's gonna make history
And when I paint my masterpiece
I swear I 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
A blessing and a curse
Or something worse yeah

This is the story of my life
And I, ride it everyday
I know, it isn't black and white
And it's anything but grey
I know, you know I'm not allright
But I'll, be okay 'cause
Anything can
Everything can
I've been thinking
Maybe you can
Help me write the story of my life
Hey what do you say?

Guitar solo

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

This is the story of my life
And I, ride it everyday
I know, it isn't black and white
And it's anything but grey
I know, you know I'm not allright
But I'll, be okay 'cause
Anything can
Everything can
I've been thinking
Maybe we can

This is the story of my life
The story of my life
The story of my life

This is the story of life
The story of my life

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 pine
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 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 thiefs
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 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 keep it
Our dirty little secret

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 keep it

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

You said you made me and you break me
You said it ain't hard to shake me
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
C'mon 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
Took a pass on the bass 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
You're gonna bring it to me

I'm unbreakable, unstoppable, I'm invincible
C'mon 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

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
C'mon 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, you're gonna 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

What if everything you always took for granted was gone
And everything you ever thought was right was wrong
And what if everyone you ever loved just torn from the pages of your life
Would you reach out for tomorrow or try to turn back time ?

These open arms will wait for you
These open arms can pull us through
Between what's left and left to do
These open arms
These open arms
These open arms will wait for you

Did you even love the one you said you loved, that's right
Did you make a tender difference in somebody else's life ?
Tell me, is a song you can count on when you need a friend ?
Can you see I need a friend...

These open arms will wait for you
These open arms can pull us through
Between what's left and left to do
These open arms
These open arms
These open arms will wait for you

Can you lean me your skin ?
Walk in your own shoes !
You can't win if you don't know how to lose
Crawl, fall, try to get out of the learner, fly !

These open arms will wait for you
These open arms can pull us through
Between what's left and left to do
These open arms
These open arms
These open arms
These open arms