Written by Ralph Covert

Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung



Well I was born too late to be a Rolling Stone

I don't know Jerry Lee I never me John & Yoko

Standin' with a strat, I'm rock 'n' roll's bastard son

Go out get drunk get wild have fun

I don't got a million dollars don't drive a Cadillac

Give me half a chance 'cause I'm not dead yet



I'm not dead yet

I'm not dead yet

I'm a mad dog fighting with the wall against my back

You better get a bigger gun I'm not dead yet



I've been machine-gunned handgunned hijacked left for dead

Dive-bombed napalmed nuclear warheaded

Dropped from a jet plane with no parachute

Shot by a firing squad & raped by a business suit

I'm dancin' on a land mine baby one leg left

And I can still crawl and I'm not dead yet



Well you're bigger tougher meaner rougher

Dirtier and uglier and sneakier and trickier

You wanna shoot me with a gun, cut me with a knife

Take your bare hands baby rip out my eyes

You knocked me to the floor then you bit me in the neck, well

Hit me again cause I'm not dead yet



I'm not dead yet, no no

I'm not dead yet

Well I'm a wild card hidin' in the middle of the deck

You better get a bigger gun, you better get a bigger gun



Well there's a mugger in the alley there's a sniper in the hall

There's a girl at the bar wants to get me by my balls

And the hangman is hangin', if I autograph the noose

Lee Harvey Oswald's brother's on the loose

Mafia hit man with a bullet for my neck

Some day he's gonna get me but I'm not dead yet



I'm not dead yet

I'm not dead yet

I'm a wild card hidin' in the middle of the deck

You better get a bigger gun, you better get your poison pen