Released: August 5, 1986
Songwriter: Rikki Rockett Bobby Dall C.C. DeVille Bret Michaels
Producer: Ric Browde
Remember the nights we sat
And talked about all our dreams
Well little did we know then
They were more distant than they seemed
Well I knew it
You knew it too
The things we'd go through
We knew the things we had to do
To make it, baby
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
Life ain't no easy ride
At least that's what I am told
Sometimes the rainbow baby
Is better than the pot of gold
You've got to stick it out
Whether you're wrong or right
And you can't give in without a fight
To make it baby
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
You gotta aim high, baby
Whether you lose or win
And when you get to the top
You gotta get off or go right back down again
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
And talked about all our dreams
Well little did we know then
They were more distant than they seemed
Well I knew it
You knew it too
The things we'd go through
We knew the things we had to do
To make it, baby
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
Life ain't no easy ride
At least that's what I am told
Sometimes the rainbow baby
Is better than the pot of gold
You've got to stick it out
Whether you're wrong or right
And you can't give in without a fight
To make it baby
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
You gotta aim high, baby
Whether you lose or win
And when you get to the top
You gotta get off or go right back down again
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Out to the world
To make them all come true
You gotta cry tough
Out on the streets
To make your dreams happen
You gotta cry out
Poison’s Greatest Hits: 1986-1996
- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
- I Won’t Forget You
- So Tell Me Why
- Sexual Thing
- Fallen Angel
- Life Goes On
- Look What The Cat Dragged In
- Stand
- Lay Your Body Down
- I Want Action
- Nothing But a Good Time
- Ride the Wind
- (Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice
- Unskinny Bop
- Your Mama Don’t Dance
- Something to Believe In
- Talk Dirty to Me
- Cry Tough
- Look What the Cat Dragged In (1986)
- Poison’s Greatest Hits: 1986-1996 (1996)
- The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock (2006)
- 10 Great Songs (2009)
- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
- Talk Dirty to Me
- Something to Believe In
- Fallen Angel
- Unskinny Bop
- Nothing But a Good Time
- Life Goes On
- I Won’t Forget You
- Look What The Cat Dragged In
- Ride the Wind
- Be The One
- I Want Action
- Ride Child Ride
- Let It Play (live)
- Crack a Smile (demo)
- Let It Play
- Lay Your Body Down
- What I Like About You
- Your Mama Don’t Dance (MTV Unplugged)
- The Scream
- Can’t Bring Me Down
- Something To Believe
- Richie’s Acoustic Thang
- Little Willy