Live 31 Jan 1998 version
Hey, man I'm alive, I'm takin' each day and night at a time
I'm feelin' like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday night
Well, hey my name is Jim, where'd I go wrong
My life's a bargain basement, all the good shit's gone
I just can't hold a job, where do I belong
Cause I've been sleeping in my car, my dreams have moved on
My name is Billie Jean, our love was bought and sold
I'm only sixteen I feel a hundred years old
My foster daddy went and took my innocence away
The street life ain't much better, but at least I'm getting paid
Tuesday just might go my way, can't get worse than yesterday
Thursdays, Fridays ain't been kind but somehow I'll survive
Hey, man I'm alive, taking each day and night at a time
Yeah I'm down, but I know I'll get by
Hey hey hey hey, man I gotta live my life
I ain't got nothing but this roll of the dice
Feeling like a Monday, but someday I'll be Saturday night
Now I can't say my name, or tell you where I am
I want to blow myself away, don't know if I can
I wish that I could be in some other time and place
With someone else's soul, with someone else's face
Tuesday just might go my way, it can't get worse than yesterday
Thursdays, Fridays ain't been kind but somehow I'll survive
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 by
Hey hey hey hey, man I'm gonna live my life
Like I ain't got nothing but this roll of the dice
Feeling like a Monday, but someday I'll be Saturday night
Saturday night
Oh yeah
Saturday night
Hey, man I'm alive, I'm taking each day and night at a time
Oh, I might be down, but I'll get by
Oh, Saturday night
Oh, Saturday night
On Saturday night
Saturday night
Here we go!
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 by
Hey hey hey hey, man I'm gonna live my life
Like I ain't got nothing but this roll of the dice
Feeling like a Monday, but someday I'll be Saturday night
I'm feeling like a Monday, but someday I'll be Saturday night
I'm feeling like a Monday, but someday I'll be, I'll Saturday night
Oh
Saturday night
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, no, no
Saturday night
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, na na
Come on team
SOMEDAY I'LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT is a 1994 song by Bon Jovi. See the original Bon Jovi version for more details.
The above lyrics are for live 31 Jan 1998 performance of SOMEDAY I'LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ, during the "Come Together: Jon Bon Jovi & Friends" benefit concert. Jon Bon Jovi and Southside Johnny traded lead vocals on this song. Bruce Springsteen did not sing, but he probably was onstage playing guitar during this and all the other songs on which he did not sing.
The "Come Together: Jon Bon Jovi & Friends" benefit concert was organized by the Long Branch Police Department, The Asbury Park Press, and FPI Concerts, along with Jon Bon Jovi. The concert was to honor slain Long Branch police officer Sgt. Patrick King and raise money for the Sgt. Patrick King Memorial Fund to provide for his family. King, 45-year-old father of two young boys, was fatally shot on 20 Nov 1997 by a fugitive who had vowed to kill himself and a police officer rather than be captured and returned to jail.
Twenty musicians with ties to the Jersey shore music scene answered Jon Bon Jovi's call, including Bruce Springsteen and several members of the then-disbanded E Street Band (Clarence Clemons, Danni Frederici, Patti Scialfa, Steven Van Zandt, and Max Weinberg), Southside Johnny, Bobby Bandiera, and Richie Sambora among others. Actor Danny DeVito was the event's MC. Tickets, which were priced at $125, went on sale on 17 Jan 1998 noon and sold out in just eight minutes. The concert that was organized in short order raised more than $112,000 for King's widow and his two sons.
"It was a chance to forget about [the murder] a little bit," Long Branch police Sgt. Bruce Johantgen, one of about 50 city police officers who attended the show, told The Asbury Park Press. "The outpouring of love from the performers to the audience was unbelievable". Johantgen said he found it ironic that Bon Jovi and other performers thanked the audience for coming to the sold-out show. "From the police perspective, I kept thinking, 'We should be thanking you for giving your time'," Johantgen said.
This was a near-reunion of the fabled E Street Band and Springsteen's first full-length electric gig following the acoustic The Ghost Of Tom Joad Solo Acoustic Tour. Springsteen spent much (or possibly all) of the night onstage, singing or playing guitar only. Soundboard recording for the complete concert is available among collectors.
The 31 Jan 1998 show at Count Basie Theatre was commercially released in Europe. Since 2005 some enterprising record labels in Europe (mostly in the UK) have been releasing Bruce Springsteen radio and TV broadcasts (and some soundboard recordings) from the seventies, eighties, and nineties. Though these releases are not authorized by Bruce Springsteen or his record company, they are lawful due to a legal loophole in Europe.
SOMEDAY I'LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT was performed off-tour on 31 Jan 1998 at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ, during the "Come Together: Jon Bon Jovi & Friends" benefit concert.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of SOMEDAY I'LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT on this website:
SOMEDAY I'LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT [Live 31 Jan 1998 version]
