Bed of Roses

Sitting here wasted and wounded

This old piano

Trying hard to capture the moment

This morning I don't know

'Cause a bottle of vodka is still lodged in my head

And some blond gave me nightmares

Think she's still in my bed

A# I dream about movies they won't make of me when I'm dead

 

 

 

 

With an ironclad fist

I wake up, and French kiss the morning

While some marching band keepsits own beat

In my head while we're talking

About all of the things, that I long to believe

About love, the truth, what you mean to me

And the truth is

Baby, you're all that I need

 

 

Ref.

 

I wanna lay

You down in a bed of roses

For tonite

I sleep on a bed of nails

Oh, I want to be

Just as close as

The Holy Ghost is

And lay you down

On a bed of roses

 

 

 

 

Well I'm so far away

King's ransom in dimes

Given each night to see through this payphone

Still I run out of time

Or it's hard to get through

Till the bird on the wire

Flies me back to you

I'll just close my eyes, whisper

Baby, blind love is true

 

 

 

 

I wanna lay

You down in a bed of roses

For tonite

I sleep on a bed of nails

Oh, I want to be

Just as close as

The Holy Ghost is

And lay you down

On a bed of roses

 

 

 

Well this hotel bar hangover

Whiskey's gone dry the barkeeper's wig's crooked

And she's giving me the eye

I might have said yeah

But I laughed so hard I think I died, uh yeah!...

 

 

Solo

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now as you close your eyes

Know I'll be thinking about you

While my mistress she calls me

To stand in her spotlight again

Tonite, I won't be alone

But you know that don't mean I'm not lonely

I've got nothing to prove for it's you

That I'd die to defend

 

 

 

I wanna lay

You down in a bed of roses

For tonite

I sleep on a bed of nails

Oh, I want to be

Just as close as

The Holy Ghost is

And lay you down

I wanna lay

You down in a bed of roses

For tonite

I sleep on a be...ed of nails!

I want to be

Just as close as

The Holy Ghost is!

Lay you down

The bed of roses