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 whole index of frames
And all the reminiscence can be mine
I guess there'll be no happy endings
When once upon is due in time
There's a different kind of meaning now to livin' on a prayer
Oh some don't seem to notice and the rest don't seem to care

I tell myself I ain't no dying
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
Another 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)
You burned my favorite sweats from highschool
Try 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 ain't no dying
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
Another needle that's running through my veins
I've changed my name to novocaine (feel no pain)
Novocaine

Things ain't what they used to be
It's a sleepless

I tell myself to feel no pain
But I'm feelin' the pain (walk away)
Can't walk away

I'm hanging on the ropes of hope
It's getting hard to cope you know
Another needle that's running through my veins
I've changed my name to novocaine (feel no pain)
Novocaine