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Bed of roses

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

[Coro]
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

[Coro]
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

[Coro]