By Unknown

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 is still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares, I think that she's still in my head
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 bat 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 meant to me
And the truth is baby you're all that I need.
I want to lay down on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on a bed of roses

Well I'm so far that each step that I take is on my way home
A king's ransom in dimes I'd give each night just to see throughout this payphone
Still I run out of time or it's hard to get thought
Till the bird on the wire files me back to you
I'll just close my eyes and whisper, baby blind love is true.

I want to lay down on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
I went to be just as close as the Holy Ghost
And lay down on a 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
While my mistress she calls me to stand in the 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.