Key: Bb
Introduction: Bb F Bb F
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Sitting here wasted and wounded
F
At this old piano
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Trying hard to capture the moment
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This morning I don' t know
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' Cause a bottle of vodka' s still lodged in my head
F
And some blond gave me nightmares
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Think that she' s still in my bed
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As I dream about movies they won' t make of me when I' m dead
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With an iron-clad fist
F
I wake up, and French kiss the morning
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While some marching band keeps its own beat
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In my head while we' re talking
Am A#
About all of the things, that I long to believe
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About love, the truth, what you mean to me
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And the truth is
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Baby, you' re all that I need
Dm
I wanna lay
C A# F
You down in a bed of roses
Dm
For tonight
C A# F
I sleep on a bed of nails
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Oh, I want to be
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Just as close as
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The Holy Ghost is
Dm C A#
And lay you down
A# F
On a bed of roses
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Well, I' m so far away
F
Each step that I take' s on my way home
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A King' s ransom in dimes
F
I give each night to sing through this payphone
Am
Still I run out of time
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Or it' s hard to get through
F
Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you
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I' ll just close my eyes, and whisper
A# C F C
Baby, blind love is true
Dm
I wanna lay
C A# F
You down in a bed of roses
Dm
For tonight
C A# F
I sleep on a bed of nails
A#
Oh, I want to be
F
Just as close as
A# F
The Holy Ghost is
Dm C A#
And lay you down
A# F C
On a bed of roses
A#
Well, this hotel bar hangover
C F
Whiskey' s gone dry, the barkeeper' s wig' s crooked
And she' s giving me the eye
A#
I might have said yeah
A# C F C
But I laughed so hard I think I died, uh yeah!...
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Now as you close your eyes
F
Know I' ll be thinking about you
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While my mistress she calls me
F
To stand in her spotlight again
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Tonight, I won' t be alone
F
But you know that don' t mean I' m not lonely
Dm C A#
I' ve got nothing to prove for it' s you
A# F C
That I' d die to defend
Dm
I wanna lay
C A# F
You down in a bed of roses
Dm
For tonight
C A# F
I sleep on a bed of nails
A#
Oh, I want to be
F
Just as close as
A# F
The Holy Ghost is
Dm C A# F C
And lay you down
Dm
I wanna lay
C A# F
You down in a bed of roses
Dm
For tonight
C A# F
I sleep on a be...ed of nails!
A#
I want to be
F
Just as close as
A# F
The Holy Ghost is!
Dm C A#
And lay you down
( A#) F
On a bed of roses
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