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 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
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I want to lay you in a bed of roses
For tonight 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 I´m so far away
That each step that I take is on my way home
A king´s ransom in dimes I´d give each night
Just to see through this pay phone
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
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This 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
When you close your eyes
Know I´ll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me
To stand in her spotlight again
Tonight 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
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