Released: September 20, 2005
Songwriter: Jon Bon Jovi
Producer: Richie Sambora Jon Bon Jovi Rick Parashar
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
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][2x]
Novocaine [x3]
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
[Verse 2]
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][2x]
Novocaine [x3]
more tracks from the album
Have a Nice Day
- Have a Nice Day
- Story Of My Life
- Dirty Little Secret
- Unbreakable
- These Open Arms
- Story Of My Life (live)
- Last Man Standing (live)
- Who Says You Can’t Go Home (Duet Version)
- Who Says You Can’t Go Home (live duet)
- Novocaine
- Complicated
- I Want To Be Loved
- Welcome To Wherever You Are
- Who Says You Can’t Go Home?
- Last Man Standing
- Bells Of Freedom
- Wildflower
- Last Cigarette
- I Am
- Have a Nice Day (live)
From the album
- Have a Nice Day (2005)
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- You Give Love a Bad Name
- Always
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- Bed of Roses
- Runaway
- Bad Medicine
- Thank You for Loving Me
- Never Say Goodbye
- Have a Nice Day
- Walls
- This Ain’t a Love Song
- Keep the Faith
- Shot Through the Heart
- Unbroken
- These Days
- Born to Be My Baby
- Do What You Can
- This House Is Not for Sale
- Story of Love
- In These Arms
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