"KEEP THE FAITH"




I BELIEVE 
(J. 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's no land of Oz 
But I got my brain and I got a heart 
And courage built 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 

Chorus: 
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 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 
(J. Bon Jovi, R. Sambora, D. 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 

Chorus: 
Faith: you know you're gonna live through 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 
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 al'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 

Chorus 

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' 
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 yours face 
Trying to hold on, trying to hold on 

Faith: you know you're gonna live through 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 it's not too late 
Try to hold on, trying to hold on 
Keep the faith 
  

I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD 
(J. Bon Jovi, R. Sambora, D. Child) 

Seven days of saturday 
Is all that I need 
Got no use for Sunday 
'Cause I don't rest in peace 
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 

Chorus: 
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 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 gonna die baby 
Come on let me drive you crazy 
We'll make every night another New Year's Eve 

Chorus 

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 
(J. Bon Jovi, R. Sambora, D. Bryan) 

You want commitment 
Take a look into these eyes 
They burn with a fire 
Till 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 

Chorus: 
I'd hold you 
I'd need you 
I'd get down on my knees for you 
And make everything all right 
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 our words 
Our words were our songs 
Our songs are our prayers 
These prayers keep me strong 
And I still I believe 
If you were in these arms tonight 

Chorus 

Your clothes are still scattered 
All over our room 
The whole place still smells like 
Your cheap perfume 
Everything here reminds me of you 
And there's nothing that I wouldn't do 

And these were our words 
They keep me strong baby 

Chorus 
  

BED OF ROSES 
(J. 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 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 

Chorus: 
I want to lay you in a bed of roses 
For tonight 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 pay phone 
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 

Chorus 

This 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 
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 

Chorus 
  

IF I WAS YOUR MOTHER 
(J. Bon Jovi, R. 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 telling 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 

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'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, mother 

Mother, mother 
If I was your mother 
Mother, mother 
  

DRY COUNTY 
(J. 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 savior 
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 pay dirt 
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 
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 

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 
(J. Bon Jovi) 

Call it social commentary 
Call it just what my 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 

Chorus: 
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 neighbors 
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 

Chorus 

There ain't no secret 
To a 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 traveled 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 
Oh, yeah 
  

FEAR 
(J. 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 
Through the city 
Makes you feel like you're 
A partner in crime 
Girl once 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 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 
(J. Bon Jovi) 

The last time I saw her 
Was the night she said good-bye 
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 

Chorus: 
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 your memory kept calling your name 

I bought you fancy cars and diamond rings 
Baby all the things that money brings 
And the servants to paint the skies 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 

Chorus 

I may have built for you a dream house 
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 
(J. Bon Jovi, R. 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 

Chorus: 
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 & 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 

Chorus 

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 

Chorus 

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 
(J. Bon Jovi, R. Sambora) 

You been robbed 
You been used 
You been crucified and 
You been abused 
You 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 o 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 o soul 

Whoa oh 
Little bit of soul 
What we all need 
To survive 
Is just 
A little bit o 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 o 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 

Whoa oh little bit o soul 
Whoa oh little bit o soul 
Whoa oh little bit o soul 
  

SAVE A PRAYER 
(J. Bon Jovi, R. Sambora) 

Dear Lord, Jesus, Buddha, 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 in a flood? 
Did you ever feel a lust for survival, did you ever feel, feel, feel? 
The world couldn't take me from getting dirty. 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 will ???? , 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.