You can take back all your secrets We'll divide up all the lies Keep all the pictures in their frames Cut me out, yeah, I'll be fine Tell the neighbors all my feelings Go on and give away my pride It's hard to laugh and cry, live and die, every night
Keep your Rolodex of friends And all the remnants can be mine I guess there'll be no happy endings When "once upon" is doing time There's a different kind of meaning now To livin' on a prayer Some don't seem to notice And the rest don't seem to care
I tell myself I (feel no pain) But I'm feeling the pain (walk away) Can't walk away I'm hanging on the ropes of hope It's getting hard to cope you know When you're the needle running through my veins I've changed my name to Novocaine
You put my favorite belongings in a box in the garage (let's get this straight) Burned my favorite sweats from high school Tried to sell my muscle car (that's not okay) Your mother's gonna visit for a couple months this year They say you do the crime, do the time, it's all so clear
I tell myself I (feel no pain) But I'm feeling the pain (walk away) Can't walk away I'm hanging on the ropes of hope It's getting hard to cope you know When you're the needle that's running through my veins I've changed my name to Novocaine (feel no pain) Novocaine
Well things ain't what they used to be It's a sleepless, self-help century Man, I'm up to here with Dr. Phil and the modern man in me
I tell myself to feel no pain But I'm feeling the pain (walk away) Can't walk away I'm hanging on the ropes of hope It's getting hard to cope you know When you're the needle that's running through my veins I've changed my name to Novocaine (feel no pain) Novocaine Novocaine (feel no pain) Novocaine I feel no pain
[spoken:] It's okay, you're a 21st century man This is a 21st century land You gotta get in touch with your inner-self The feminine side That's all they really wanted, right? I understand Maybe what I gotta do is understand I..who she...I don't... I never understood anything to begin with