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's still lodged in my head

and some blonde gave me nightmares, i 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, the 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'll sleep on a bed of nails

i want to be just as close as, the Holy Ghost is,

and lay you down on a bed of roses.

Well I'm so far away

Each step that I take is on my way home

a king's ransom in dimes I'd 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'll just close my eyes and whisper, baby blind love is true

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses

for tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails

i want to be just as close as, the Holy Ghost is,

and lay you down on a bed of roses.

The hotel bar 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.

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, 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.

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses

for tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails

i want to be just as close as, the Holy Ghost is,

and lay you down on a bed of roses.