Key: C
Introduction: C
F C
Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano.
F C
Trying hard to capture the moment, this morning I don't know.
Em F C
'Cause a bottle of vodka still lodged in my head and some blonde
F
Gave me nightmares, I think that she's still in my bed.
Dm G C
As I dream about movies they won't make of me when I'm dead.
F C
With an ironclad fist I wake up and french-kiss the morning.
F C
While some marching band keeps it's own beat in my head while we're talking
Em F
About all of the things that I long to believe,
C F
About love, the truth, what you mean to me and the truth is
Dm G C
Baby you're all that I need.
Am G F C
I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses.
Am G F C
For Tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails. ohh
F C F C
I wanna be just as close as your Holy Ghost is.
Am G F C
And Lay you down, on a bed of roses.
Verse two
F C
Well I'm so far away, each step that I take's on my way home.
F C
A king's ransom in dimes I'd give each night to see through this pay phone.
Em F C
Still I'd run out of time or it's hard to get through till the bird on the wire
F
Flies me back to You I'll just close my eyes.
Dm G C
Whisper baby blind love is true.
Am G F C
I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses.
Am G F C
For Tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails. ohh
F C F C
I wanna be just as close as your Holy Ghost is.
Am G F C
And Lay you down, on a bed of roses.
Am G
Well this hotel bars hangover whiskey's gone dry.
C Em
The barkepper's wig's crooked, and she's giving me the eye.
F Dm G C
Well I might've said yes, but I laughed so hard I think I died....ooh yeah
Am G C Am G C Am G C
Silence
F C
Now as you close your eyes know I'll be thinking about you.
F C
While My mistress she calls me to stand in her spotlight again.
F C
Tonight I won't be alone, but you know that don't mean I'm not lonely.
Am G F G C
I've got nothing to prove, for its you that I'd die to defend.
Am G F C
I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses.
Am G F C
For Tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails. ohh
F C F C
I wanna be just as close as your Holy Ghost is.
Am G F C
And Lay you down, on a bed of roses.
Am G F C
I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses.
Am G F C
For Tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails. ohh
F C F C
I wanna be just as close as your Holy Ghost is.
Am G F C
And Lay you down, on a bed of roses.