Bed Of Roses (Acoustic)

Verse 1 Bb F Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano Bb F Trying hard to capture the moment, this morning I don't know Am Bb 'Cause a bottle of vodka's still lodged in my head and some F Fsus4 F Bb Blonde gave me nightmares, think that she's still in my bed C F As I dream about movies they won't make of me when I'm dead Verse 2(as Verse 1) With an iron clad fist I wake up and frnch kiss the morning While some marching band keeps its own beat in my head while were talking About all of the things that I long to believe About love, the truth and what you mean to me Bb C F And the truth is, baby you're all that I need Chorus (Richie sings backround vocals three steps higher) Dm C Bb F I want to lay you down in a bed of roses Dm C Bb F For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails Bb F Bb F Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is Dm C Bb F And lay you down on a bed of roses Verse 3 Well I'm so far away, each step that I take's on my way home A king's ransom in dimes, I'd give each night to see through this payphone Still I run out if time it's hard to get through Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you I'll just close my eyes, and whisper baby blind love is true Chorus Bridge C Bb C Well this hotel bar's hangover whiskey's ran dry F The bar keeper's wig's crooked and she's givin' me the eye Bb C F Well I might have said yes, but I laughed, till I died Interlude Play 'Dm - C - Bb - F' four times in the same rhythm as the chourus Breakdown Bb F Now as you close your eyes, you know I'll be thinking about you Bb F While my mistress, she calls me to stand in her spotlight again Bb F Tonight, I won't be alone, to know that don't mean I'm not lonely Dm C Bb F I've got nothin' to prove for it's you that I'd die to defend Chorus 2x