BON JOVI: Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night CD. 2 live versions – 1 cover + the ballad “Always”. 22 minutes.

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BON JOVI: Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night
+ Good Guys Dont Always Wear White
+ With A Little Help From My Friends (Live at St. Denis Theatre, Montreal, Canada)
+ Always ( Live at St. Denis Theatre, Montreal, Canada )

reached #7 in the UK Top 40.

Lyrical content:  “Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night” is about optimism in the face of adversity. The song’s first verse introduces the characters Jim who struggles to find employment and is forced to sleep in his car, and Billie-Jean who was abused by her foster father and has turned to prostitution at the age of sixteen (remarking that the street-life ain’t much better but at least I’m getting paid), mourning the loss of her childhood. The song’s pre-chorus and chorus refer to life, luck and survival, looking forward to when times are better (the eponymous Saturday Night).

Live performances:

The song is considered to be a fan favourite and a popular example of Bon Jovi’s upbeat anthemic choruses taking on deeper meaning during the 1990s. It is often performed live and has been refined in several different versions over the years. For example, there is a 1995 recording from Melbourne on the band’s One Wild Night Live 1985–2001 live CD, where Jon Bon Jovi sings the intro slowly, encouraging the crowd to join in before the band come in and return the song to tempo. This version also features an extended interlude. On the Lost Highway Tour the song had been played in a version closer to the original studio recording, but for The Circle Tour, it is played in a slower acoustic style. The song was performed on select dates of the Because We Can Tour either in its slow acoustic arrangement, or in its original arrangement.

Track list 

CD single features two more live songs recorded December 6, 1994 in St. Denis Theatre, Montreal, Canada. Desmond Child is given writing credits on “Someday I’ll be Saturday Night”.

1. “Someday I’ll be Saturday Night” (Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child) – 4:38 [Running time of the live version is 4:45]
2. “Good Guys Don’t Always Wear White” (Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora) – 4:27
3. “With a Little Help from My Friends” ‘Live’ (Lennon–McCartney) – 6-14
4. “Always” ‘Live’ (Jon Bon Jovi) – 5-52

The song “Good Guys Don’t Always Wear White” is featured in the movie The Cowboy Way. Although Bon Jovi also released a music video to the song it was never released as a single.

Hey man, I’m alive
I’m taking each day and night at a time
Yeah I’m down, but I know I’ll get back,
man I gotta live my life
like I ain’t got nothing but this roll of the dice
I’m feeling like a Monday but someday I’ll be Saturday Night

You say you don’t like my kind
A better picture in your mind
No it don’t matter what I say
I hear ya bitchin’ when I walk away
I’ll never be what ya want me ta be
You tell me I’m wrong but I disagree
I ain’t got no apology

Just because I don’t look like you, talk like you, think like you
Judge and jury, a hangmans noose;
I see them in your eyes…

Good guys don’t always wear white
Good guys don’t always wear white

You judge a man who don’t stand in line
Just because he ain’t on your side
You know the man who wears those shoes
If you cut me don’t I bleed like you?
Ya know I do

I don’t know watcha been told
Can’t buy guts with a pot ‘o gold
A rich mans poor if he got no soul

Rich man, poor man begger man can
All that shit don’t mean a thing
Do you know which ones behing those eyes?
Its always a disguise…

Good guys don’t always wear white
Good guys don’t always wear white

Hey baby… what side you on?
You think you got it all fired out,
Where we belong
Forget all about your dark dressed knight
Day from night,
Wrong from right…

Good guys don’t always wear white
Good guys don’t always wear white

Don’t always wear
Don’t always wear
Don’t always wear
Don’t always wear
Don’t always wear…
White