Bed Of Roses
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Rhythm fig #1: Rhythm fig #2: Rhythm fig #3:
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Intro: (with keyboard part played over top)
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Verse 1: (Keyboard part played over the top)
Bb
F
Sitting here wasted and
wounded with this old piano.
Bb
F
Trying hard to capture the
moment, this morning I don't know.
Am
Bb
F
'cause a bottle of vodka
still lies in my head and some blonde
Bb
gave me nightmares, I think
that she's still in my bed.
Bb
C
F
As I think about movies
they won't make of me when I'm dead.
Bb
F
With an iron-clad fist I
wake up to french-kiss the morning.
Bb
F
While a marching band keeps
it's own beat in my head while we're talking
Am
Bb
F
about all of the things I
longed to believe, about love, the truth,
Bb
what you mean to me and the
truth is...
Bb C (rhythm fig
#1)
Baby you're all that I need.
Chorus:
Dm C
Bb F (rhythm fig #3)
I wanna lay you down in a
bed of roses.
Dm
C Bb F (rhythm fig #2)
Tonight I sleep on a bed of
nails.
Bb
F
Bb F
I wanna be just as close as
the Holy Ghost is.
Dm C Bb
F
Lay you down, on a bed of
roses.
Verse #2:
I'm so far away, each step
that I take's on my way home.
A king's ransom in dimes
I'd give each night to see through this payphone.
But I'd 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 it
probably is true".
Bridge:
Bb
C
The hotel bars hangover
whiskey's gone dry.
F
The bartender's wig's
crooked, she's giving me the eye.
Bb
Bb
C F (rhythm fig. #1)
I might've said yes, but I
laughed so hard I think I died.
Solo:
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Verse 3:
Now as you close your eyes
you know I'll be thinking about you.
My mistress she calls me to
stand in her spotlight again.
I won't be alone, you know
that don't mean I'm not lonely.
I've got nothing to prove,
for its you I'd die to defend.