(emotional rock music)
♪ 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's
still lodged in my head ♪
♪ And some blonde gave me nightmares ♪
♪ Think that she'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, the truth,
what you mean to me ♪
♪ And the truth is ♪
♪ Baby, you're all that I need ♪
♪ I wanna lay you down ♪
♪ In a bed of roses ♪
♪ For tonight I'll sleep ♪
♪ On a bed of nails ♪
♪ Oh, I wanna be ♪
♪ Just as close as ♪
♪ The Holy Ghost is ♪
♪ And lay you down ♪
♪ On a bed of roses ♪
♪ Well, I'm so far away ♪
♪ Each step that I take's on my way home ♪
♪ King's ransom in dimes
I'd give each night ♪
♪ To see through this pay phone ♪
♪ Still I run out of time or
it's hard to get through ♪
♪ 'Til the bird on the
wire flies me back to you ♪
♪ I'll just close my eyes ♪
♪ And whisper, baby, blind love is true ♪
♪ I wanna lay you down ♪
♪ In a bed of roses ♪
♪ For tonight I'll sleep ♪
♪ On a bed of nails ♪
♪ Oh, I wanna be ♪
♪ Just as close as ♪
♪ The Holy Ghost is ♪
♪ And lay you down ♪
♪ On a bed of roses ♪
♪ Well, this hotel bar's
hangover whiskey's gone dry ♪
♪ The barkeeper's wig's crooked ♪
♪ And she's giving me the eye ♪
♪ Well, I might have said yeah ♪
♪ But I laughed so hard I think I died ♪
♪ Ooh yeah ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ 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 wanna lay you down ♪
♪ In a bed of roses ♪
♪ For tonight I'll sleep ♪
♪ On a bed of nails ♪
♪ Oh, I wanna be ♪
♪ Just as close as ♪
♪ The Holy Ghost is ♪
♪ And lay you down ♪
♪ I wanna lay you down ♪
♪ In a bed of roses ♪
♪ For tonight I'll sleep ♪
♪ On a bed of nails ♪
♪ I wanna be ♪
♪ Just as close as ♪
♪ The Holy Ghost is ♪
♪ And lay you down ♪
♪ On a bed of roses ♪
(audience cheering)
