wanted dead or alive

Wanted Dead or Alive" is a song from Bon Jovi's 1986 album Slippery When Wet. The song was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora and was released in 1987 as the album's third single. The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the third single from the album to reach the Top 10 of the Hot 100. Slippery When Wet was the first hard rock album ever to have 3 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song's title pays homage to Jon's admiration for Old West heroes, and how he identifies with them as being hated (wanted dead or alive). On the band's Behind the Music special on VH1, it is even revealed that the band had originally planned to do an Old West-themed album in the 1980s, but scrapped the idea. Jon Bon Jovi said during a concert in Detroit, Michigan, on February 20, 2008, that the song "absolutely positively was influenced by [Bob] Seger's 'Turn the Page.'[1] also he performed this song live.


Its all the same


only the names will change


Everyday


it seems we're wastin' away




Another place


where the faces are so cold

I drive all night


just to get back home





*Im a cowboy


on a steel horse I ride

Im wanted


dead or alive

Wanted


dead or alive




Sometimes I sleep


sometimes its not for days

And the people I meet


always go their separate ways



Sometimes you tell the day

By the bottle that you drink

And times when you're all alone

all you do is think


*

*

When I walk these streets


a loaded six string on my back

I play for keeps


'cause I might not make it back



I been everywhere


still I'm standin' tall

Ive seen a million faces


an I've rocked them all


'Cause Im a cowboy

on a steel horse I ride

Im wanted

dead or alive


Im a cowboy

I got the night on my side

And I'm wanted


dead or alive


And I'm right


dead or alive


I Still Drive


dead or alive