Flashback

(michael bruce)

You strut into the room
Well i don't know ya
With a magnifying glance
I just sort of looked her over, hmm
We have a drink or two
Well, maybe three
And then suddenly you started telling me
Your life story
You said

Baby, if you wanna be my lover
You better take me home
'cause it's a long long way to paradise
And i'm still on my own

Told ya that i came
From new york city
And i played guitar
In a real live rock and roll band
You asked me why
The singer's name was alice
I said listen, baby
You really wouldn't understand

And i said

Baby, if you wanna
Be my lover
You better take me home
'cause it's a long long way to paradise
And i'm still on my own

Baby, if you wanna
Be my lover
You better take me home
'cause it's a long long way to paradise
And i'm still on my own

(joan jett/kenny laguna)

I've been friends with you for many days
And i know you in so many ways
So lets go for a drink to ensure i can be forever

But what do you think about when its dark out
After we say goodnight
I wonder

Oooooo your my fantasy
Oooooo you and me it could be
Your my fantasy

I know there's something on your mind
And its bugged us for a long long time
Your miles off my case you have something to say but you shy away
Hey baby

What is on your mind in the daytime
Cause i'm hoping to see you tonight
And i'm wondering

Oooooo your my fantasy
Oooooo you and me it could be
Your my fantasy

Everytime i nearly get to be closer
Why do i feel this strange inclination
Is it just my imagination

Don't tell me i'm dreaming

I wanna say what i'm thinking about
I'm never sure what i'll find
But i wonder

Oooooo your my fantasy
Oooooo you and me it could be
Your my fantasy

I have you yes i do
Your my fantasy

(j. jett/k. fowley)

Can't stay at home, can't stay at school
Old folks say, ya poor little fool
Down the street i'm the girl next door
I'm the fox you've been waiting for

Hello daddy, hello mom
I'm your ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb
Hello world i'm your wild girl
I'm your ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb

Stone age love and strange sounds too
Come on baby let me get to you
Bad nights cause'n teenage blues
Get down ladies you've got nothing to lose

Hello daddy, hello mom
I'm your ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb
Hello world i'm your wild girl
I'm your ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb

Hey street boy whats your style
Your dead end dreams don't make you smile
I'll give ya something to live for
Have ya, grab ya til your sore

Hello daddy, hello mom
I'm your ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb
Hello world i'm your wild girl
I'm your ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb

(joan jett/reggie griffin/eddie morris/william adler)

I will not take off my clothes
I will not be rude
For what i have done
Is come to rock you

Late at night while the normals rest
I feel wicked when i start to dress
My clothes, they stare at me like they
Wanna make love to my body
I'm not a dream but i'm supreme and if ya
Listen to the sky you see what i mean
When it rains outside, people run and hide
I walk the streets and start to pry
And wonder was i here before?
In another life? yes! i'm sure but what
As i suppose why do i get power from these clothes

Black leather, i wear it on stage
Black leather, i'm gonna wear it to my grave
Black leather, i will wear it anywhere
Because my name is joan jett and i don't care
Just the feel of it on my flesh makes me
Feel wild feel possessed
But i'm not don't get me wrong
I'm the baddest slick chick just singin'
This song

Lilly white dresses sure they're cute
They also attract a lot of men to you
But they make you feel real vulnerable
From anything that got muscle
But ya cannot take what i would not give
Cuz that's the truth that's how i live

Listen don't slick talk me to make me indulge
Cuz i am joan and i am luv!
I have this friend in a waterbed
He's real wild when he's soak'n'wet
Yo joan let's hang till the early dawn
Scorp chill till i put my leather on

Black leather, i wear it on stage
Black leather, i'm gonna wear it to my grave
Black leather, i will wear it anywhere
Because my name is joan jett and i don't care
Just the feel of it on my flesh make me
Feel wild feel possessed
But i'm not don't get me wrong
I'm the baddest slick chick and i'm singin'
This song

This is true i gotta show no shame
I was born to freak and i'm to blame?
I coulda been a mailman in any weather
Instead i'm rockin' away in my leather
When i was young i wore skirts and lace
My father told me to slow down my pace
His friends would come over and get in my face
And ask the same question mine or your place?
It's alright to be treated like a lady
I couldn't wait till that notion ceased
My friends thought that i was a little angel
I couldn't help it if i felt like a beast
So when i die don't worry about a coffin
There won't be no ashes to stuff in the urn
Jus' lay me out toss on the charcoal lighter
An' fire me up smell the leather burn

Black leather, i wear it on stage
Black leather, i'm gonna wear it to my grave
Black leather, i will wear it anywhere
Because my name is joan jett and i don't care
Just the feel of it on my flesh make me
Feel wild feel possessed
But i'm not don't get me wrong
I'm the baddest slick chick and i'm singin'
This song

Black leather, i wear it on stage
Black leather, i'm gonna wear it to my grave
Black leather, i will wear it anywhere
Because my name is joan jett and i don't care
Just the feel of it on my flesh make me
Feel wild feel possessed
But i'm not don't get me wrong
I'm the baddest slick chick and i'm singin'
This song

(bunker hill)

Say man looky here
Let's get together tonight an' play some hide & go seek
Whatcha say
Yeah well c'mon

Well i love you love you love you
Tickle tickle hug me hug me hug me
You all hid yeah
If you ain't hid ya better holler billy goat bah
Are you ready i'm not ready
Aw man let's hide this time

I went down the road the road was muddy
I stubbed my toe my toe was hurtin'
You all hid yeah
If you ain't hid you better holler billy goat bah
Two bars of washin' powder two bars of soap
Already hid you better holler billy goat

I went down the road the road was muddy
I stubbed my toe my toe was hurtin'
Walk don't jump to the bottom of the well
Swam by the devil n' he
Wha'd he say, wha'd he say
I'm not gonna say that
You all hid yeah

If you ain't hid you better holler billy goat bah
Look what i go look what i go
Aw man will you put down that thing you got
In your hand an' find your hole an' get it it
I'm gonna say this just one more time yep
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
You all hid yeah
If you ain't hid you better holla billy goat bah

One potato two potato three potato four
All ain't ready better let me go
If you hid, behind my pie
I'm gonna hit you right in the eye
You all hid yeah

If you ain't hid you better holla billy goat bah
Now are you ready i'm still not ready
Aw man looky here i want you to find yourself
The tallest tree an' i want you to climb up in it
An' walk out on the limb an' jump
An' i hope that you fall in the deepest hole

I mean listen, cause i'm gonna say this
Just one more time
Say i went down the road, the road was muddy
I stubbed my toe my toe was hurtin'
Two bars a' washin' powder two bars a' sop
All ain't hid you better holla billy goat (bah)
Now i know you're ready this time man
I'm ready i'm ready

(j. jett/j. shear)

I'm on a dirt highway
The sky was streamin' red
I told you my rules
I guess you didn't hear a single word i said

You tried to change me
What a surprise
Cuz now i see the tears they're falling
And they're from you eyes

Right til the end
I want my way
Right til the end
Don't care what ya say
You knew the first day

I'm in my empty room
I had to turn you loose
Don't be like me
I don't want compassion like i want the truth

Don't want to hurt you that's not me
The only choice i got is hurt you or to set you free

Right til the end
I want my way
Right til the end
Don't care what ya say

It's so easy to fall out of love
You do not feel the same
It's so easy to fall out of love
When one will never change and i know

Right til the end
I want my way
Right til the end
Don't care what ya say
You knew the first day

(joan jett/kenny laguna)

Life is never what you think
Give a sentimental wink
There ya go you don't know what's instore
But you felt it before

Hey i'm warmin' up to your insides
I don't worry cause i got no ties
Not a guy not a girl not a thing
Not a thing in this world

Come on out come on out
Come on out and play with me
Come on out come on out
Come on out and play with me

Hey baby did ya ever feel like being crazy
The borderlines are getting hazy
Rules are what we forgot you're a blaze
Leave them reeling for days

Come on out come on out
Come on out and play with me
Come on out come on out
Come on out and play with me

We'll have lots of fun let out emotions run
Nothing tonite is gonna get us down
We'll have lots of thunder let our emotions run
They go round and round and round round

Come on out come on out
Come on out and play with me
Come on out come on out
Come on out and play with me

(jett-laguna-cordell-kupersmith)

I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation
You're living in the past it's a new generation
A girl can do what she wants to do and that's
What i'm gonna do
An' i don't give a damn ' bout my bad reputation

Oh no not me

An' i don't give a damn 'bout my reputation
Never said i wanted to improve my station
An' i'm only doin' good
When i'm havin' fun
An' i don't have to please no one
An' i don't give a damn
'bout my bad reputation

Oh no, not me
Oh no, not me

I don't give a damn
'bout my reputation
I've never been afraid of any deviation
An' i don't really care
If ya think i'm strange
I ain't gonna change
An' i'm never gonna care
'bout my bad reputation

Oh no, not me
Oh no, not me

Pedal boys!

An' i don't give a damn
'bout my reputation
The world's in trouble
There's no communication
An' everyone can say
What they want to say
It never gets better anyway
So why should i care
'bout a bad reputation anyway
Oh no, not me
Oh no, not me

I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation
You're living in the past
It's a new generation
An' i only feel good
When i got no pain
An' that's how i'm gonna stay
An' i don't give a damn
'bout my bad reputation

Oh no, not me
Oh no, not
Not me, not me

(j. hooker/a. merrill)

I saw him dancin' there by the record machine
I knew he must a been about seventeen
The beat was goin' strong
Playin' my favorite song
An' i could tell it wouldn't be long
Till he was with me, yeah me, singin'

I love rock n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock n' roll
So come an' take your time an' dance with me

He smiled so i got up and' asked for his name
That don't matter, he said,
'cause it's all the same

Said can i take you home where we can be alone

An' next we were movin' on
He was with me, yeah me

Next we were movin' on
He was with me, yeah me, singin'

I love rock n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock n' roll
So come an' take your time an' dance with me

Said can i take you home where we can be alone

An we'll be movin' on
An' singin' that same old song
Yeah with me, singin'

I love rock n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock n' roll
So come an' take your time an' dance with me

(joan jett)

She works real hard to try to make things right
To see if she can find a reason for what's wrong
In life she puts her thoughts into magazine form
And passes them all around her dorm
Showing me another way another way to fight

Activity grrrl trying to change the world
She's gonna knock on your door
Activity grrl in an uptight world
She's impossible to ignore

She spends her days involved in community things
And at night she'll go out to a club where she likes to sing
She teaches so the others will know
There's more beneath the skin that doesn't show
And she's looking at the challenge that tomorrow's bringing

Activity grrrl trying to change the world
She's gonna knock on your door
Activity grrl in an uptight world
She's impossible to ignore

Hopes to fix the problems that come within her space
And takes hurting people real serious you can see it on her face
She can't accept that life is unfair
She wants to think the others care
When some poor soul with no control is there for us to embrace

Activity grrrl trying to change the world
She's gonna knock on your door
Activity grrl in an uptight world
She's impossible to ignore

Activity grrrl trying to change the world
She's gonna knock on your door
Activity grrl in an uptight world
She's impossible to ignore