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 wont 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 to night 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 its 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 a bed of roses
for to night 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 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
to night I won´t be alone
but you know tha don´t mean I´m not lonely
I´ve got nothing to prove
for its you that I´d die to defend

I wanna lay you down on a bed of roses
for to night 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