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 blonde gave me nightmares
think that 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 truth
what you mean to me
And the truth is baby you´re all that I need

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Well I´m so far away
step that I takes on my way home
A king´s ransom in dimes give each night
to see through this payphone
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 just close my eyes and whisper,
baby blind love is true

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on the bed of roses

Well this hotel bar´s hangover whiskey´s gone dry
The barkeeper´s wig´s crooked and
She´s giving me the eye
Well I might have said yeah
But I laughed so hard I think I died
ooh yeah

Now as you close your eyes
Know I´ll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me
To stand in her spotlight again
Tonight won´t be alone
To 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

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses