Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

(Joan Jett/Kenny Laguna)

Time is a healer of all wounds
I know I won't forget you, you're extra cruel
Just in time I was lucky to discover
That you lie and you hide behind others

Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself
Why don't you stand up for yourself

Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself
Why don't you stand up for yourself

I see you are so small you have no sense
And you try to be bigger at my expense
Now I know you are not what you pretend
Ain't no way, I will nail you in the end

Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself
Why don't you stand up for yourself

Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself
Why don't you stand up for yourself

Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself
Why don't you stand up for yourself

Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself
Why don't you stand up for yourself

Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself
Why don't you stand up for yourself

Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself
Why don't you stand up for yourself

Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself
Stand up for yourself

After splitting with The Runaways, and releasing her first solo album, Joan Jett placed an ad in LA Weekly looking for bandmates. Gary Ryan, Eric Ambel, and Danny “Furious” O'Brien joined her, creating the orginial Blackhearts lineup.

After their initial tour though, O'Brien was replaced with Lee Crystal.

Early on, keeping the band afloat was not easy. Joan and producer Kenny Laguna struggled, sometimes selling copies of albums from the trunk of his car. Eventually unable to keep up with the demand for Joan Jett’s album, they signed with Boardwalk Records.

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