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Intro

 ] (2x)

[Verso 1:]

 Sitting here wasted and wounded

 This old piano

 Trying hard to capture the moment

 This morning I don't know

 'Cause a bottle of vodka is still lodged in my head

 And some blond gave me nightmares

 Think she's still in my bed

 As I dream about movies they won't make of me when I'm dead

[Verso 2:]

 With an ironclad fist

 I wake up, and French kiss the morning

 While some marching band keepsits own beat

 In my head while we're talking

 About all of the things, that I long to believe

 About love, the truth, what you mean to me

 And the truth is

 Baby, you're all that I need

[Refrão 1:]

 I wanna lay

 You down in a bed of roses

 For tonite

 I sleep on a bed of nails

 Oh, I want to be

 Just as close as

 The Holy Ghost is

 And lay you down

On a bed of roses

[Verso 3:]

 Well I'm so far away

 Step that I take is on my way home

 King's ransom in dimes

 Given each night 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, whisper

 Baby, blind love is true

[Refrão 2:]

 I wanna lay

 You down in a bed of roses

 For tonite

 I sleep on a bed of nails

 Oh, I want to be

 Just as close as

 The Holy Ghost is

 And lay you down

On a bed of roses

[Ponte:]

 Well 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, uh yeah!...

Solo

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[Verso 4:]

 Now as you close your eyes

 Know I'll be thinking about you

 While my mistress she calls me

 To stand in her 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

[Refrão 3:]

 I wanna lay

 You down in a bed of roses

 For tonite

 I sleep on a bed of nails

 Oh, I want to be

 Just as close as

 The Holy Ghost is

 And lay you down

 I wanna lay

 You down in a bed of roses

 For tonite

 I sleep on a be...ed of nails!

 I want to be

 Just as close as

 The Holy Ghost is!

  - - (-Bb)

Lay you down

  (-*)

The bed of roses