I Believe

(Jon Bon Jovi)

All I know is what I've been sold
You can read my life like a fortune told
I've seen the dream, there ain't no land of Oz
But I got my brain and I got a heart

And courage built, man, I won't let go
What we need right now is ....soul

I can't do this, you can't do that
They feed us lines but I won't act
And all good things will come to pass
But the truth is all you have to have

And would you lie for it?
(Do you) cry for it?
(Would you) die for it?
Would you

I believe, I believe
With every breath that I breathe
You and me can turn a whisper to a scream
I believe, I believe

You know what you came here for
You'll pay the cost, like it's your cross to bear
Are we the ones that put it there

Would you scheme for it
Scream for it, bleed for it
Would you

I belive, I believe
Believe we're still worth
The fight you'll see
There's no hope for this world tonight
I believe, I believe

Don't look up on your movie screens
In record stores or magazines
Close your eyes and you will see
That you are all you really need

I believe, I believe
With every breath that I breathe
You and me can turn a whisper to a scream
I believe, I believe

Keep The Faith

(Jon Bon Jovi / Richie Sambora / Desmond Child)

Mother mother tell your children
That their time has just begun
I have suffered for my anger
There are wars that can't be won

Father father please believe me
I am laying down my guns
I am broken like an arrow
Forgive me
Forgive your wayward son

Everybody needs somebody to love (mother, mother)
Everybody needs somebody to hate (please believe me)
Everybody's bitching 'cause they can't get enough
And it's hard to hold on when there's no one to lean on

Faith - you know you're gonna live thru the rain
Lord you got to keep the faith
Faith - don't you let your love turn to hate
Right now we got to
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord we got to keep the faith

Tell me baby when I hurt you
Do you keep it all inside
Do you tell me all's forgiven
And just hide behind your pride

Everybody needs somebody to love (mother, father)
Everybody needs somebody to hate (please don't leave me)
Everybody's bleeding 'cause the times are tough
Well it's hard to be strong when there's no one to dream on

Faith - you know you're gonna live thru the rain
Lord you got to keep the faith
Now you know is never too late
Oh you got to keep the faith
Faith - don't let your love turn to hate
Right now we got to
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord we got to keep the faith

I've been walking in the footsteps
Of society's lies
I don't like what I see no more
Sometimes I wish that I was blind
Sometimes I wait forever
To stand out in the rain
So no one sees me cryin'
I'm trying to wash away the pain

Mother father
There's things I've done I can't erase
Every night we fall from grace
It's hard with the world in your face
Trying to hold on, trying to hold on

Faith - you know you're gonna live thru the rain
Lord you got to keep the faith
Faith - don't let your love turn to hate
Right now we got to keep the faith

Faith - now you know it's never too late
Try to hold on, trying to hold on
Keep the faith

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

( Jon Bon Jovi / Richie Sambora / Desmond Child)

Seven days of saturday is all that I need
Got no use for Sunday 'cause I don't rest in peace
I don't need no Mondays or the rest of the week
I spend a lot of time in bed but baby I don't like to sleep no

I won't lie to you, I'm never gonna cry to you
I'll probably drive you wild 8 days a week

Until I'm 6 feet under baby I don't need a bed
Gonna live while I'm alive I'll sleep when I'm dead
Till they roll me over and lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I'm alive I'll sleep when I'm dead

So you're looking for some action, I got everything you need
Better keep your motor running 'cause I was built for speed
This ain't no slumber party got no time for catching Z's
If they say that that ain't healthy, well then living's a disease

We're never goinna die baby, come on let me drive you crazy
We'll make every night another New Year's Eve

Till I'm six feet under I won't need a bed
Gonna live while I'm alive I'll sleep when I'm dead
Till they roll me over and lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I'm alive I'll sleep when I'm dead

Sleep when I'm dead, sleep when I'm dead
Gonna live while I'm alive, I'll sleep when I'm dead

Seven days of Saturday is all that I need
Got no use for Sunday 'cause I don't rest in peace
I was born to live you know I wasn't born to die
But if they party down in heaven, I'll be sure to be on time

Until I'm six feet under I don't need a bed
Gonna live while I'm alive I'll sleep when I'm dead
Till they roll me over and lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I'm alive I'll sleep when I'm dead
I feel like I'm exploding, going out of my head
Gonna live while I'm alive I'll sleep when I'm dead
Till I'm six feet under and they lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I'm alive I'll sleep when I'm dead

Sleep when I'm dead, sleep when I'm dead
Gonna live while I'm alive, sleep when I'm dead

In These Arms

(Jon Bon Jovi / Richie Sambora / David Bryan)

You want commitment
Take a look into these eyes
They burn with a fire, (just for you now )
Until the end of time

I would do anything
I'd beg, I'd steal, I'd die
To have you in these arms tonight

Baby I want you
Like the roses want the rain
You know I need you
Like a poet needs the pain

I would give anything
My blood my love my life
If you were in these arms tonight

I'd hold you I'd need you
I'd get down on my knees for you
And make everything alright
If you were in these arms
I'd love you I'd please you
I'd tell you that I'd never leave you
And love you till the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight

We stared at the sun
And we made a promise
A promise this world would never blind us

These are my words
Our words were our songs
Our songs are our prayers
These prayers keep me strong
It's what I believe

If you were in these arms tonight
If you were in these arms tonight

I'd hold you I'd need you
I'd get down on my knees for you
And make everything alright
If you were in these arms
I'd love you I'd please you
I'd tell you that I'd never leave you
And love you till the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight

Your clothes are still scatteder all over our room
This old place still smells like your cheap perfume
Everything here reminds me of you
And there's nothing that I wouldn't do
To be in your arms

And these were our words
They keep me strong

I'd hold you I'd need you
I'd get down on my knees for you
And make everything alright
If you were in these arms
I'd love you I'd please you
I'd tell you that I'd never leave you
And love you till the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight

Bed Of Roses

(Jon Bon Jovi)

Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano
Trying hard to capture the moment this morning I don't know
'Cause a bottle of vodka is still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares I think that she's still in my bed
As I dream about movies they won't make of me when I'm dead

With an ironclad fist I wake up and French kiss the morning
While some marching band keeps its own beat in my head while we're talking
About all of the things that I long to believe
About love and the truth and what you mean to me
And the truth is baby you're all that I need

I want to lay you down on a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Well I'm so far away that each step that I take is on my way home
A king's ransom in dimes I'd give each night just to see through this payphone
Still I run out of time or it's hard to get through
Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you
I'll just close my eyes and whisper, baby blind love is true

I want to lay you down on a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

The hotel bar hangover whiskey's gone dry
The barkeeper's wig's crooked and she's giving me the eye
I might have said yeah but I laughed so hard I think I died

When you close your eyes
Know I'll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me to stand in her spotlight again
Tonite I won't be alone but you know that don't mean I'm not lonely
I've got nothing to prove
For it's you that I'd die to defend

I want to lay you down on a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

If I Was Your Mother

(Jon Bon Jovi / Richie Sambora)

If I was your mother
Would you let me hold your hand
Would you say you were my baby
Would you always be my friend

If I was your mother
Could I teach you what's right
Could I tell you stories maybe tuck you in
And kiss you sweet goodnight

Tell me what I got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it's true

If I was your mother
Would you always believe me
'Cause I'd wake up in the middle of the night
Just to see if you need me

Tell me there's no other
To whom you're telling your secrets
And would you tell me 'bout the boys
You've been bringing home to meet me

Tell me what I got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it's true

If I was yours
Mother, mother
If I was your Mother, mother
When love is blood
You're never on trial
Love don't get deeper
Than a mother & child
Oh baby, I got to get that close to you

Tell me what I got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it's true
If I was yours

Tell me what I got to be
To make you a part of me
There's no one else you'd ever need
If I was your
Mother, mother
If I was your mother
Mother, mother
Mother, mother
If I was your mother
Mother, mother

Dry County

(Jon Bon Jovi)

Across the border they turn water into wine
Some say it's the devil's blood they're squeezing from the vine
Some say it's a saviour in these hard and desperate times
For me it helps me to forget that we're just born to die

I came here like so many did to find the better life
To find my piece of easy street, to finally be alive
And I know nothing good comes easy and all good things take some time
I made my bed I'll lie in it, to die in it's the crime

You can't help but prosper
Where the streets are paved with gold
They say the oil wells ran deeper here than anybody's known
I packed up on my wife and kid and left them back at home
Now there's nothing in this paydirt, the ghosts are all I know

Now the oil's gone, the money's gone
And the jobs are gone
Still we're hangin' on

Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hand
Here in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out of here alive

In the blessed name of Jesus I heard a preacher say
That we are God's children and He'd be back someday
And I hoped that he knew something as he drank his cup of wine
I didn't have too good of a feeling as I head out to the night

I cursed the sky to open, I begged the clouds for rain
I prayed to God for water for this burning in my veins
It was like my soul's on fire and I had to watch the flames
All my dreams went up in ashes and my future blew away

Now the oil's gone and the money's gone
All the jobs are gone
Still we're hangin' on

Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hand
Here in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out of here alive

Men spend their whole lives
Waiting praying for their big reward
But it seems sometimes the payoff
L leaves you feeling like a dirty whore

If I could choose the way I'll die
Make it by the gun or knife
'Cause the other way there's too much pain
Night after night after night

Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hand
Here in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out of here alive

Woman In Love

(Jon Bon Jovi)

Call it social commentary
Call it just what me eyes see
Seems that there's more pretty women
Than there are fish in the sea ...

Woman in love

You see there's girls who like your money
Girls who like your car
Girls who like to sip champagne and feed on caviar ...

Woman in love

Send me some silk stockings
Smooth talking lipstick and curls
I want a woman
More than a girl
Need some lip-locking, cool walking
Diamonds and pearls
I'll wrap 'em all up
And give them the world

You know there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain't nothing she can't rise above
She can part the waters when the seas get rough
But there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love

If lust is just a dirty dog
I've been scratching with the fleas
I've been waking up your neighbours
Barking up your tree

I went down to the shopping mall
To get it off my mind
But it's like sleeping with the enemy
If you're not deaf and blind

I tried to run
But it was too late for me
I tried to hide
Since the day Adam met Eve
Till I turned on the television
And I looked up on the screen
I saw a hundred pretty girls
Sing this song on MTV

Send me some silk stockings
Smooth talking lipstick and curls
I want a woman
More than a girl
Need some lip-locking, cool walking
Diamonds and pearls
I'll wrap 'em all up
And give them the world

You know there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain't nothing she can't rise above
She can part the water when the seas get rough
There ain't no woman
Like a woman in love

There ain't a secret to woman in love
You think that you can live without 'em
But you're asking too much
You see I've slept with romance
And danced with lust
But there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love

Oh, yeah I've travelled all around the world
Across the seven seas
Got everything I wanted
There's just one thing I need
It hasn't changed forever
Fathers tell your sons
That there ain't nothing like athing called love

You know there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain't nothing she can't rise above
She can part the waters when the seas get rough
There ain't no woman
Like a woman in love

There ain't a secret to woman in love
You think that you can live without 'em
But you're asking too much
You see I've slept with romance and danced with lust
But there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Oh, yeah

Fear

(Jon Bon Jovi)

I see you looking over your shoulder
Tell me who do you think's out there
You're reaching for your four leaf clover
But baby there ain't no luck down there

I swear that there's no heart in this city
It's here the slogan reads "Do your time"
Everybody's doing their sentence
It's just there ain't nobody here who knows just what's the crime

I watched my father live a lie here
I'd rather die than fade away
I read the rules and yeah I know them
Still you ain't ever gonna
Make me play the game of Fear

Fear
Fear
Fear

Running with the rats in this city
Makes you feel like you're a partner in crime
Girl once you were young and pretty
Now you won't stop to watch
That little girl did

Hey baby won't you stop and hear me
Just being here we're breathing heart attacks
We can run and chase the setting sun
We can run and we won't ever look back
Take my hand I know we'll make it
I'll let nothing slow us down
I know you want to curse this place
B but there's only one thing that's stopping us now

Fear fear fear
Of a new thing
Fear fear fear
Of the brass ring

You ain't one for taking chances
You work and live and breathe that 9 to 5
Still that's what you call living
That's surviving to me
And surviving is living to die in

Fear

I Want You

(Jon Bon Jovi)

The last time I saw her
Was the night she said goodbye
She said that love's a stranger
And it's sure to pass you by

As she packed up her belongings
She wouldn't look me in the eye
But I could see a tear roll off her face
As we both tried so hard not to cry

She said
I never wanted the stars
I never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you
So baby just turn away
Because I can't face the truth
All I'm trying to say
Is all I wanted was you

I tried so hard to remember
Where, when, how, why love went away
I tried to drown myself in pity
But the whiskey kept calling your name

I bought you fancy cars and diamond rings
All the things that money brings
And the servants to paint the sky blue
And I worked so hard seven days a week
And built a fortress for your heart to keep
If I could I'd wrap these words up for you

I never wanted the stars
I never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you
So baby just turn away
Because I can't face the truth
All I'm trying to say
Is all I wanted was you

I may have built for you a dreamhouse
But never thought you were alone
I filled the party up with company
But never made our house a home

All I got is my guitar these chords and the truth
All I got is my guitar ... but all I want is you

Blame It On The Love Of Rock & Roll

(Jon Bon Jovi / Richie Sambora)

First time I heard the music
I thought it was my own
I could feel it in my heartbeat
I could feel it in my bones

My momma thinks I'm crazy
My dad says I'm insane
I got this boogie woogie fever
That's burning in my veins

They tried to take me to a doctor
But it's too late for me
Then they took me to a preacher
That they saw on their TV
Who said that "For a small donation
Your lost soul will be saved!"
I said "I don't think so preacher
I'll come back another day"

All I want, is to be a Rolling Stone
They don't understand what we all know

It feels so good that it ought to be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograf needle
I'll never grow up and I'll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock & roll

My teachers didn't like me
They tried to put me down
'Cause I wore my hair too long
I played my music way too loud
Every little boy wants to learn to play guitar
So he can pick up all the chicks
And be a rock-n-roll star

They said it won't last, but they misunderstood
If people think it's bad then I'll be bad for good

It feels so good that it ought to be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograf needle
I'll never grow up and I'll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock & roll

Blame it on the love, blame it on the love
Daddy just don't understand what the little girls know
Blame it on the love of rock-n-roll

All I wanted, all I ever needed
My guitar gave to me
Every song I've sung (blame it on the love)
Every war I've won (blame it on the love)
Everything I've done (blame it on the love)
Blame it on the love of rock-n-roll

It feels so good that it ought to be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograf needle
I'll never grow up and I'll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock & roll

Blame it on the love, blame it on the love
Daddy just don't understand what the little girls know
Blame it on the love of rock-n-roll

Little Bit Of Soul

(Jon Bon Jovi / Richie Sambora)

You've been robbed
You've been used
You've been crucified and
You've been abused
You've been sacrificed and now you're confused
Ain't it the truth

You got a hole in your head
And a cold empty spot in your big brass bed
When you're mad at the world and
You feel like you're losing control
All you need to get by is
A little bit of soul

When your lost in the flood
And you feel like you been kicked through the mud
You know they still haven't found the drug
To pick us up

You're feeling down, misunderstood
I know these times they ain't looking so good
When you're mad at the world and you feel like you're losing control
What we all need to get by is
A little o soul

Whoa oh
Little bit of soul
What we all need to survive
Is just a little bit of soul

Everyone's complaining
Nothing but frustration
The king has pissed in your pot of gold
It ain't entertaining spending so much time in the hole

Send down
A little bit of soul

When you're mad at the world
And you feel like you're losing control
What we all need to get by is just
A little bit of soul

Whoa oh little bit of soul
Whoa oh little bit of soul
Whoa oh little bit of soul

Save A Prayer

(Jon Bon Jovi / Richie Sambora)

Dear Lord, Jesus, Buddah, Allah or can I just call you Joe
I've got a lot of things to tell you and some things I gotta know
I'm tired of hearing talk about this world's about to end
If we can die together then can't we all be friends

I gotta know
Hey, I gotta know
So Mister can you tell me, gotta know
Baby can you tell me, gotta know
Whoa oh oh I gotta know
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I gotta know
Baby can you help me, gotta know
I gotta know

Did you ever feel like you were drowning, did you ever feel betrayed by a kiss?
Did you ever feel like you needed somebody, would you feel alone in a world like this?
Did you ever feel like you needed shelter, did you ever laugh when you wanted to cry?
Did you ever dream about evolution, don't you ever feel like your living a lie?

Oh, Whoa, too many children grow up blind to the truth I say,
Oh Oh, Oh, Oh, say a prayer for me, I'll save a prayer for you.

Did you ever feel like you were helpless, did you ever feel like an open wound?
Did you ever feel that there ain't no forgiveness, did you ever feel that close to the truth.
Oh Whoa, the world closed their eyes on the blinding truth.

I say, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh , say a prayer for me, and I'll save a prayer for you
I'll save a prayer for you, I'll save a prayer for you,
I'll save a prayer.... for you, for you, for you.

I'll save a prayer.

Did you ever feel like you need shelter, did you ever feel like you lived through the flood?
Did you ever feel a lust for survival, did you ever feel, feel, feel?

The world keeps turning Rome's still burning
There's too many hearts that haven't found a home
This train's on the tracks and the world's on my back,
Save a prayer for me and I'll save one for you

No one to blame , but it's hard to explain, why too many soul's are feeling so alone
You've got to hold on if it's all you can do
Save a prayer for me, I'll save a prayer for you
I'll save a prayer for you, I'll save a prayer for you,
I'll Save a prayer.... for you, for you, for you