sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano
trying hard to capture the moment
this morning i don't know
cause a bottle of vodka still lodged in my head
and some blonde gave me nightmares
i think that she's still in my bed
as i dream
about movies they won't make of me when i'm dead
with an ironclad fist i wake up french kiss the morning
while some marching band keeps its 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
i wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
for tonight i'll sleep on a bed of beds
i wanna be just as close as the holy ghost is
and lay you down on a bed of roses
well i'm so far away
that each step that i take's on my way home
a king's ransom in dimes
give 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 just close my eyes
and whisper baby blind love is true
i wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
for tonight i'll sleep on a bed of nails
i wanna be just as close as the holy ghost is
and lay you down on a
bed of roses
well this hotel bar's hangover
whiskey's gone dry
the barkeeper's wig's crooked
and she's giving me the eye
well i might have said yeah
but i laughed so hard i think i died
oh yeah
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
tonight 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 tonight i sleep on a bed of nails whoa
i wanna be just as close as the holy ghost is
and lay you down
i wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
for tonight i'll sleep on a bed of nails
i wanna be just as close as the holy ghost is
and lay you down
in a bed of roses