ey 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?
Cry for it? 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 believe
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 to 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

(Bon Jovi/Sambora/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
Everybody needs somebody to hate
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 through the rain
Lord, you gotta keep the faith
Faith - don't let your love turn to hate
Now we gotta keep the faith

Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord, we gotta 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
Everybody needs somebody to hate
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 through the rain
Lord, you gotta keep the faith
Faith - don't let your love turn to hate
Now we gotta keep the faith

Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord, we gotta 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 crying
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 through the rain
Lord, you gotta keep the faith
Faith - don't let your love turn to hate
Now we gotta keep the faith

Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord, we gotta keep the faith



I'll sleep when I'm dead

(Bon Jovi/Sambora/Child)

Seven days of Saturday's
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
Eight days a week

Until I'm six 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've got everything you need
Better keep your motor running
Baby, 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 gonna die, baby
Come on! Let me drive you crazy
We'll make every night
Another new year's eve

Until I'm six 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

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
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

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
I'll sleep when I'm dead



In these arms

(Bon Jovi/Sambora/Bryan)

You want commitment
Take a look into these eyes
They burn with a fire
Until the end of time

And 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

And 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

And these were 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

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 scattered all over our room
This old place still smells like your cheap perfume
Everything here reminds me of you
There's nothing that I wouldn't do

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

(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 blonde 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 iron clad 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 wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed on nails
I wanna 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 my way home
A king's ransom in dimes I've given each night
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 wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed of nails
I wanna be just as close as the holy ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Wel, 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

Now as you close your eyes
Know I'll be thinking about you
While my mistress, she calls me
To stand in her spotlight again

Tonight 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 wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed of nails
I wanna be just as close as the holy ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses



If I was your mother

(Bon Jovi/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've gotta 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 mother
To who you're selling your secrets
And would you tell me 'bout all the boys you been
Bringing home to meet me?

Tell me what I've gotta 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

When love is blood you're never on trial
Love don't get deeper than a mother a child
Oh, baby, I gotta get that close to you

Tell me what I've gotta 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



Dry county

(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
You see, 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

I know nothing good comes easy
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

Now I packed up on my wife and kid
And left them both at home
Now there's nothing in this paydirt
The ghost's are all I know

Now the oil's gone
And the money's gone
And the jobs are gone
Still we're hanging 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 all 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
And the jobs are gone
Still we're hanging 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 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

(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 water 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 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

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
A thing 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 water when the seas get rough
There ain't no woman like a woman in love

There ain't 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



Fear

(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

Running with the rats through the city
Makes you feel like you're a partner in crime
Girl, once you won't stop to watch
That little girl died

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 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 nine to five
Still that's what you call living, that's surviving to me
And surviving is living to die in

Fear



I want you

(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
Baby wouldn't look me in the eye
But I could see a tear rolled off her face
As we both tried so hard not to cry, she said

I never wanted the stars
Never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you

So baby, just turn away
'Cause 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
Never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you

So baby, just turn away
'Cause 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 or home

All I've got is my guitar
These chords and the truth
All I've got is my guitar
But all I want is you



Blame it on the love of rock and roll

(Bon Jovi/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
My lost soul would 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 phonograph needle
I'll never grow up and I'll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock 'n' roll

My teachers didn't like me
They always 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 phonograph needle
I'll never grow up and I'll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock 'n' roll

Blame it on the love
Blame it on the love
Dad 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 love
Every war I've won, blame it on love
Everything I've done, blame it on 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 phonograph needle
I'll never grow up and I'll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock 'n' roll

Blame it on the love
Blame it on the love
Dad don't understand what the little girls know
Blame it on the love of rock-n-roll



Little bit of soul

(Bon Jovi/Sambora)

You've been robbed
You been used
You been crucified and
You been abused

You been sacrificen 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 you've 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

Feeling down, misunderstood
You 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 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 o soul



Save a prayer

(Bon Jovi/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 you're 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 souls 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