(Verse) 
        Asus2                  
You can take back all your secrets 
We'll divide up all the lies 
             F#m 
Keep all the pictures in their frames 
Just cut me out, yeah, I'll be fine 
         Bm 
Sell the neighbors all my feelings 
Go on give away my pride 
             D                                Dsus2 
It's hard to laugh and cry, live and die every night 
 
          Asus2 
Keep your rolodex of friends 
And all the remnants can be mind 
                 F#m 
I guess there'll be no happy endings 
When ?once upon? is doing time 
          Bm 
There's a different kind of meaning now 
To livin' on a prayer 
D 
Some don't seem to notice 
And the rest don't seem to care 
 
(Chorus) 
                 Asus2 
I tell myself I (feel no pain) 
                         F#m 
But I'm feeling the pain (walk away) 
Can't walk away 
   Bm   
I'm hanging on the ropes of hope 
It's getting hard to cope you know 
    D                                     Dsus2 
When you're the needle running through my veins 
                        Asus2 
I've changed my name to novocaine 
 
(Verse) 
                                                           
You put my favorite belongings in a box in the garage (let's get this straight) 
              F#m 
You burned my favorite sweats from high school  
Tried to sell my muscle car (that's not OK) 
             Bm 
You're mother's gonna visit for a couple months this year 
             D                              
They say you do the crime, you do the time 
           Dsus2 
It's all so clear 
 
(Chorus) 
                 Asus2 
I tell myself I (feel no pain) 
                         F#m 
But I'm feeling the pain (walk away) 
Can't walk away 
   Bm   
I'm hanging on the ropes of hope 
It's getting hard to cope you know 
    D                                     Dsus2 
When you're the needle running through my veins 
                        Asus2       F#m 
I've changed my name to novocaine, novocaine 
 
(Solo) 
Asus2 F#m 
 
(Bridge) 
     G 
Well things ain't what they used to be 
       D                 
It's a sleepless, self-help century 
           Bm                        G         
I'm up to here with Dr  Phil and the modern man in me? 
 
 
(Chorus) 
                 Asus2 
I tell myself I (feel no pain) 
                         F#m 
But I'm feeling the pain (walk away) 
Can't walk away 
   Bm   
I'm hanging on the ropes of hope 
It's getting hard to cope you know 
    D                                     Dsus2 
When you're the needle running through my veins 
                        Asus2       F#m 
I've changed my name to novocaine, novocaine 
 
 Asus2       F#m         Asus2        F#m  Asus2  F#m  Asus2    
novocaine, novocaine, I (feel no pain) 
 
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