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 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 the truth and what you mean
to me and the truth is
Baby you're all that I need
I wanna lay you down on a bed
of roses for tonight I'd sleep on a bed of nails
I wanna 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 just 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 on abed of roses
for tonight I'd sleep on a bed of nails
I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost
is and lay you down on a bed of roses
The hotel bar hang over 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
Yeah...

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
I wanna lay you down on a bed
of roses for tonight I'd sleep on a bed of nails
I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost
is and lay you down
I wanna lay you down on a bed of roses
for tonight I'd sleep on a bed of nails
I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost
is and lay you down on a bed of roses.