Intro: Bb  F (4x)



B

Sitting here wasted and wounded

                  F#

at this old piano

             B

Trying hard to capture

                                                      F#

the moment this morning I don't know

                Bbm

'Cause a bottle of vodka

            B         

is still lodged in my head

                  F

And some blond gave me nightmares

                                      B

I think she's still in my bed

As I dream about movies

         C#7                                       F#

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

C#                 Ebm     C#    B        F#

  I want to lay you on a bed of roses

           Ebm     C#          B         F#

For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails

                B             F#               B        F#

I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is

      Ebm C#  B                      F   

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 given 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 want to lay you down on a bed of roses

For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails

I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is

And lay you down on bed of roses

                                Ebm                           C#

The hotel bar hangover whiskey's gone dry

             F#   

The barkeeper's wig's crooked

                   B

And she's giving me the eye

I might have said yeah

           B                         C#        F     C#

But I laughed so hard I think I died



(interlude)

Ebm  C#  B  F#

Ebm  C#  B  F#

Ebm  C#  B  F#

Ebm  C#  B  F#

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 want to lay you down on a bed of roses

For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails

I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is

And lay you down on bed of roses

This song is lovingly dedicated to
Beth

This song is lovingly dedicated to
Tira Maya Maisesa

from Ricky

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