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 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 in a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed on nails
Oh, I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on 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 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 want to lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonite 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
Well, 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
Bridge
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 want to lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down
I'm gonna lay you down in bed of roses
For tonite I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down in a bed of roses
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