G
D
G
D
G
D
G
D
G
Sitting here wasted and wounded
D
at this old piano
G
Trying hard to capture
D
the moment this morning I don’t know
F~m
‘Cause a bottle of vodka
G
is still lodged in my head
D
And some blond gave me nightmares
G
I think that she’s still in my bed
A
D
they won’t make of me when I’m dead
G
With an ironclad fist I wake up
D
and French kiss the morning
G
While some marching band keeps its own beat
D
in my head While we’re talking
F~m
About all of the things
G
that I long to believe
D
About love and the truth
G
And the truth is
A
D
A~C~
baby you’re all that I need
Bm
A
I want to lay you down
G
D
in a bed of roses
Bm
A~C~
For tonight I sleep
G~D
D
on a bed of nails
G
D
I want to be just as close as
G
D
the Holy Ghost is
Bm
A~C~
G~D
And lay you down
D
on a bed of roses
G
Well I’m so far away
D
each step that I take is on my way home
G
king’s ransom in dimes I’d given each night
D
to see through this payphone
F~m
Still I run out of time
G
Or it’s hard to get through
D
Till the bird on the wire
G
I’ll just close my eyes and whisper,
G
A
D
A~C~
baby blind love is true
Bm
A
I want to lay you down
G
D
in a bed of roses
Bm
A~C~
For tonight I sleep
G~D
D
on a bed of nails
G
D
I want to be just as close as
G
D
the Holy Ghost is
Bm
A~C~
G~D
And lay you down
D
A~C~
on a bed of roses
G
Well, this hotel bar’s hangover
A
whiskey’s gone dry
D
The barkeeper’s wig’s crooked
G
I might have said yeah
A
D
A~C~
I think I died
Bm
A
G
D
Bm
A~C~
G~D
D
Bm
A
G
D
Bm
A~C~
G~D
D
G
Now as you close your eyes
D
Know I’ll be thinking about you
G
While my mistress she calls me
D
To stand in her spotlight again
G
Tonight I won’t be alone
D
But you know that don’t mean I’m not lonely
Bm
A~C~
I’ve got nothing to prove
G~D
D
A~C~
For it’s you that I’d die to defend
Bm
A
I want to lay you down
G
D
in a bed of roses
Bm
A~C~
For tonight I sleep
G~D
D
on a bed of nails
G
D
I want to be just as close as
G
D
the Holy Ghost is
Bm
A~C~
G~D
D
A~C~
And lay you down
Bm
A
I want to lay you down
G
D
in a bed of roses
Bm
A~C~
For tonight I sleep
G~D
D
on a bed of nails
G
D
I want to be just as close as
G
D
the Holy Ghost is
Bm
A~C~
G~D
And lay you down
D
on a bed of roses
Bm
F~m
A
G~D
A~C~
G
D
