"Bed Of Roses"<br /><br />Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano,<br />Trying hard to capture the moment this morning I don't know<br />'Cause a bottle of vodka's 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 French-kiss the morning<br />While some marching band keeps its own beat in my head while we're talking<br />About all of the things that I long to believe:<br />About love, the truth, what you mean to me.<br />And the truth is,<br />Baby, you're all that I need.<br /><br />I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses,<br />For tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails.<br />Oh, I wanna 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 />Each step that I take is on my way home.<br />A king's ransom in dimes I'd give each night to see through this pay-phone.<br />Still I run out of time or it's hard to get through.<br />'Til 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 wanna lay you down in a bed of roses,<br />For tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails.<br />Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is,<br />And lay you down on a bed of roses.<br /><br />Well, this hotel bar's hangover whiskey's gone dry.<br />The barkeeper's wig's crooked and she's giving me the eye.<br />Well, 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 /><br />Tonight I won't be alone,<br />But you know that don't mean I'm not lonely.<br />I've got nothing to prove<br />For it's you that I'd die to defend.<br /><br />I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses,<br />For tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails.<br />Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is,<br />And lay you down.<br /><br />I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses,<br />For tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails.<br />Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is,<br />And lay you down on a bed of roses.
