Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

Released: May 23, 1988

Songwriter: Desmond Child Joan Jett

Producer: Desmond Child Ric Browde Kenny Laguna Thom Panunzio

Can't stop the fun from raging
Oh 'cause we're in too deep
Can't take a whip and tame it
Oh is the price too steep

I want to make you happy
Won't give myself away
Want me to fake it baby
It's just a game we play

You want in, I want out
That's what love is all about
Full of hope and full of doubt
You want in and baby I want out
You want in and I want out

I've got a heart in danger
Oh 'cause I'm stuck on you
I wish we could start again as strangers
Oh don't know what to do
Don't want to start no trouble
Don't want to go away
Wait too long and the pain is double
They were the ones that paid

You want in, I want out
That's what love is all about
Full of hope and full of doubt
You want in and baby I want out
You want in and I want out

Why do you do it to me

I want to make you happy
Won't give myself away
Want me to fake it baby
It's just a game we play

You want in, I want out
That's what love is all about
Full of hope and full of doubt
You want in and baby I want out
You want in and I want out

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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