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 and the truth and what you mean to me

And the truth is baby, you're all that I need



I want to lay you down on a bed of roses

For tonight I sleep on a bed on nails

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 that 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 pay phone

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 want to lay you down on a bed of roses

For tonight I sleep on a bed on nails

I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is

And lay you down on bed of roses



The 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



When 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 want to lay you down on a bed of roses

For tonight I sleep on a bed on nails

I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is

And lay you down on bed of roses

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