If you start me up
If you start me up

Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
He's down on his luck...it's tough, so tough
We've got to hold on ready or not
You live for the fight when it's all that you've got

Start Me Up
We're half way there
Livin' on a prayer
Start Me Up
we'll make it - I swear
Livin' on a prayer

Start Me Up
Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got
I [bad word] with the riders in the other heats
Don't make a grown man cry
...

Start Me Up
We're half way there
Livin' on a prayer
Start Me Up
we'll make it - I swear
Livin' on a prayer

We've got to hold on ready or not
You live for the fight when it's all that you've got

We're half way there
Livin' on a prayer
Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear
Livin' on a prayer