Bed of roses

Sitting here wasted and wounded

At this old piano

Trying hard to capture

The moment this morning I dont know

cause a bottle of vodka

Is still lodged in my head

And some blond gave me nightmares

I think shes still in my bed

As I dream about movies

They wont make of me when Im 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 were 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 youre all that I need

I want to lay you on 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 Im so far away

That each step that I take is on my way home

A kings ransom in dimes Id given each night

Just to see through this payphone

Still I run out of time

Or its hard to get through

Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you

Ill just close my eyes and whisper,

Baby blind love is true

I want to lay you down on 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

The hotel bar hangover whiskeys gone dry

The barkeepers wigs crooked

And shes giving me the eye

I might have said yeah

But I laughed so hard I think I died

When you close your eyes

Know Ill be thinking about you

While my mistress she calls me

To stand in her spotlight again

Tonite I wont be alone

But you know that dont

Mean Im not lonely Ive got nothing to prove

For its you that Id die to defend

I want to lay you down on 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