Bed of Roses

 B
Sitting here wasted and wounded
           F
This old piano
        B
Trying hard to capture the moment
                F
This morning I don't know
          Am                       B
'Cause a bottle of vodka is still lodged in my head
           F
And some blond gave me nightmares
                         B
Think she's still in my bed
       B                      C                         F
As I dream about movies they won't make of me when I'm dead




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


Ref.

         Dm Dm
I wanna lay
     C         B       F
You down in a bed of roses
       Dm  Dm
For tonite
    C         B       F
I sleep on a bed of nails
               B 
Oh, I want to be
          F
Just as close as
     B      F
The Holy Ghost is
     Dm  C   B   
And lay you down
B       B       F
  On a bed of roses




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




         Dm Dm
I wanna lay
     C         B       F
You down in a bed of roses
       Dm  Dm
For tonite
    C         B       F
I sleep on a bed of nails
               B  
Oh, I want to be
          F
Just as close as
     B     F
The Holy Ghost is
     Dm  C   B 
And lay you down
B              F     C
  On a bed of roses



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


[Solo] 

Dm C B F (3x) 
Dm C B B F




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



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