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 he'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      I want to lay you down on a bed of roses   For tonite 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   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   But I'm so far away   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,   blind love is true      I want to lay you down on a bed of roses   For tonite 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      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   When my mystery calls me   To stand in this spotlight again   Tonite 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 tonite 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