Bed Of Roses

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 is still lodged in my head

And some blond 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 and 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 and 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 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 I'm so far away

Each step that I take is on my way home

A king's ransom in dimes I'd give each night

Just 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

And whisper: Baby, blind love is true

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses

For tonight I 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

The hotel bar 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

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

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 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