Standard (EADGBE)

 You can take back all your secrets

We'll divide up all the lies

 Keep all the pictures in their frames

Just cut me out, yeah, I'll be fine

 Sell the neighbors all my feelings

Go on 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 mind

 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

(Chorus)

 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

(Verse)

You put my favorite belongings in a box in the garage (let's get this straight)

 You burned my favorite sweats from high school

Tried to sell my muscle car (that's not OK)

 You're mother's gonna visit for a couple months this year

 They say you do the crime, you do the time

 It's all so clear

(Chorus)

 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, novocaine

(Solo)

(Bridge)

 Well things ain't what they used to be

 It's a sleepless, self-help century

 I'm up to here with Dr. Phil and the modern man in me...

(Chorus)

 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, novocaine

 novocaine, novocaine, I (feel no pain)