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)    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, 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