Intro: A E A E (2x)

A
Sitting here wasted and wounded
E
This old piano
A
Trying hard to capture the moment
E
This morning I don't know

Gm# -A
'Cause a bottle of vodka is still lodged in my head
E
And some blond gave me nightmares
A
Think she's still in my bed
A B E
As I dream about movies they won't make of me when I'm dead

A
With an ironclad fist
E
I wake up, and French kiss the morning
A
While some marching band keepsits own beat
E
In my head while we're talking
Gm# A
About all of the things, that I long to believe
E
About love, the truth, what you mean to me
A
And the truth is
A - B -E -E B-B*
Baby, you're all that I need


Cm#-Cm#
I wanna lay
B -A E
You down in a bed of roses
Cm# -Cm#
For tonite
-B -A E
I sleep on a bed of nails
A
Oh, I want to be
-E
Just as close as
A -E
The Holy Ghost is
Cm# -B -A A
And lay you down
A -A* E
On a bed of roses


A
Well I'm so far away
E
Step that I take is on my way home
A
King's ransom in dimes
E
Given each night to see through this payphone
Gm#
Still I run out of time
-A
Or it's hard to get through
E
Till the bird on the wire
Flies me back to you
A
I'll just close my eyes, whisper
A -B -E -E B-B*
Baby, blind love is true

Cm#-Cm#
I wanna lay
-B -A E
You down in a bed of roses
Cm# -Cm#
For tonite
-B -A E
I sleep on a bed of nails
A
Oh, I want to be
-E
Just as close as
A -E
The Holy Ghost is
Cm# -B -A -A
And lay you down
A -A* E -B
On a bed of roses

A
Well this hotel bar hangover
-B E
Whiskey's gone dry the barkeeper's wig's crooked
And she's giving me the eye
A
I might have said yeah
A -B E -E B -B
But I laughed so hard I think I died, uh yeah!...

[Solo:] Cm#-B-A-E (3x) Cm#-B-A-A A-A* E

A
Now as you close your eyes
E
Know I'll be thinking about you
A
While my mistress she calls me
E
To stand in her spotlight again
A
Tonite, I won't be alone
E
But you know that don't mean I'm not lonely
Cm# -B -A
I've got nothing to prove for it's you
-A E -B
That I'd die to defend


Cm#-Cm#
I wanna lay
-B -A E
You down in a bed of roses
Cm# -Cm#
For tonite
-B -A E
I sleep on a bed of nails
A
Oh, I want to be
-E
Just as close as
A -E
The Holy Ghost is
Cm# -B -A -A A
And lay you down
Cm#-Cm#
I wanna lay
-B -A E
You down in a bed of roses
Cm# -Cm#
For tonite
-B -A E
I sleep on a be...ed of nails!
A
I want to be
-E
Just as close as
A -E
The Holy Ghost is!
Cm# -B A A
Lay you down
A A E
The bed of roses