Sitting here wasted and wounded <br />At this old piano <br />Trying hard to capture <br />The moment this morning I don't know <br />'Cause a bottle of vodka <br />Is still lodged in my head <br />And some blonde gave me nightmares <br />I think that she's still in my bed <br />As I dream about movies <br />They won't make of me when I'm dead <br /><br />With an ironclad fist I wake up and <br />French kiss the morning <br />While some marching band keeps <br />Its own beat in my head <br />While we're talking <br />About all of the things that I long to believe <br />About love and the truth and <br />What you mean to me <br />And the truth is baby you're all that I need <br /><br />I want to lay you down in a bed of roses <br />For tonite I sleep on a bed of nails <br />I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is <br />And lay you down on a bed of roses <br /><br />Well I'm so far away <br />That each step that I take is on my way home <br />A king's ransom in dimes I'd given each night <br />Just to see through this payphone <br />Still I run out of time <br />Or it's hard to get through <br />Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you <br />I'll just close my eyes and whisper, <br />Baby blind love is true <br /><br />I want to lay you down in a bed of roses <br />For tonite I sleep on a bed of nails <br />I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is <br />And lay you down on a bed of roses <br /><br />The hotel bar hangover whiskey's gone dry <br />The barkeeper's wig's crooked <br />And she's giving me the eye <br />I might have said yeah <br />But I laughed so hard I think I died <br /><br />Now as you close your eyes <br />Know I'll be thinking about you <br />While my mistress she calls me <br />To stand in her spotlight again <br />Tonite I won't be alone <br />But you know that don't <br />Mean I'm not lonely I've got nothing to prove <br />For it's you that I'd die to defend <br /><br />I want to lay you down in a bed of roses ...
