BED OF ROSES

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 hand
and some blonde gave me nightmares, i 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
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 away
Each step that I takes on my way home
a king's ransom in dimes I'd give each night
to see through this payphone
still I run out of time or 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

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
for tonight I'll 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.

The hotel bar 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.

now as you close your eyes you 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
i want to be just as close as, the Holy Ghost is,
and lay you down on a bed of roses.
 
 
 
IF I WAS YOUR MOTHER
 
If I was your mother
Would you let me hold your hand
Would you say you were my baby
Would you  always be my friend

If I was your mother
Could I teach you what's right
Could I tell you stories
Maybe tuck you in
And kiss you sweet goodnight

Tell me what I got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it's true
If I was your mother

Would you always believe me
'Cause I'd wake up in the middle
Of the night
Just to see if you need me

Tell me there's no other
To who you're telling your secrets
And would you tell me
'Bout all the boys you been
Bringing home to meet me

Tell me what I got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it's true
If I was yours

Tell me who I got to be
To make you a part of me
There’s no one else you’d never need
If I was your

Mother, mother
If I was your
Mother, mother

When love is blood
You're never on trial
Love don't get deeper
Than a mother and child

Oh baby, I got to get that close to you

Tell me what I got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it's true
If I was yours

Tell me who I got to be
To make you a part of me
There’s no one else you’d never need
If I was your

Mother, mother
If I was your
Mother, mother

Mother, mother
If I was your
Mother, mother
 
DRY COUNTY
 
Across the border they turn
Water into wine.
Some say it’s the devil’s blood
They’re squeezing from the vine
Some say it’s a saviour.
In these hard and desperate times
Seeing it helps me to forget
That we’re just born to die

I came here like so many did
To find the better life
To find my piece of easy street
To finally be alive
I knew, nothing good comes easy
All good things take some time
I made my bed I'll lie in it
To die in it is the crime

You can’t help but prosper
Where the street are paved with gold
They say the oil wells ran deeper here
Than anybody’s known
now I packed up on my wife and kid
And left them both back home
See, there’s nothing in this paydirt
The ghost are all I know

Now the oil’s gone
and the money’s gone
all the jobs are gone
Still we’re hangin’ on

Down in dry county
They’re swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hands
in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one’s getting out of here alive

In the blessed name of Jesus
I heard a preacher say
That we are all God’s children
And that he’d be back, back someday
I hoped that he knew something
as he drank his cup of wine
I didn’t have too good of a feeling
As I head out to the night

I cursed the sky to open
I begged the clouds for rain
I prayed to God for water
For this burning in my veins
It was like my soul’s on fire
And I had to watch the flames
All my dreams went up in ashes
And my future blew away

Now the oil’s gone
and the money’s gone
all the jobs are gone
Still we’re hangin’ on

Down in dry county
They’re swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hands
in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one’s getting out of here alive

Men spend this whole life Waiting,
praying for their big reward
But it seems sometimes
That payoff leaves you feeling
Like a dirty whore
If I could choose the way I’ll die
Make it by the gun or knife
‘Cause the other way there’s too much pain
night after night after night after night…

Down in dry county
They’re swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hands
Here in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one’s getting out of here alive
 
 
 
WOMAN IN LOVE
 
Call it social commentary
Call it just what me eyes see
Seems that there's more pretty women
Than there are fish in the sea
...Woman in love

You see there's girls who like your money
Girls who like your car
Girls who like to sip champagne
And feed on caviar
...Woman in love

Send me some silk stockings
Smooth talking lipstick and curls
I want a woman
More than a girl
Need some lip-locking, cool walking
Diamonds and pearls
I'll wrap 'em all up
And give them the world

You know there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain't nothing
She can't rise above
She can part the water
When the seas get rough
But there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love

If lust is just a dirty dog
I've been scratching with the fleas
I've been waking up your neighbours
Barking up your tree
I went down to the shopping mall
To get it off my mind
But it's like sleeping with the enemy
If you're not deaf and blind

I tried to run
But it was too late for me
I tried to hide
Since the day Adam met Eve
Till I turned on the television
And I looked up on the screen
I saw a hundred pretty girls
Sing this song on MTV

Send me some silk stockings
Smooth talking lipstick and curls
I want a woman
More than a girl
Need some lip-locking, cool walking
Diamonds and pearls
I'll wrap 'em all up
And give them the world

You know there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain't nothing she can't rise above
She can part the water
When the seas get rough
There ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
There ain't secret
To woman in love
You think that you can
Live without 'em
But you're asking too much
You see I've slept with romance
And danced with lust
But there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Oh, yeah

I've traveled all around the world
Across the seven seas
Got everything I wanted
There's just one thing I need
It hasn't changed forever
Fathers tell your sons
That there ain't nothing like
A thing called love

You know there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain't nothing she can't rise above
She can part the water
When the seas get rough
There ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
There ain't secret
To woman in love
You think that you can
Live without 'em
But you're asking too much
You see I've slept with romance
And danced with lust
But there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Oh, yeah
 
 
FEAR
 
I see you looking over your shoulder 
Tell me who do you thinks out there 
You're reaching for your four leaf clover 
But baby there ain't no luck down there 

I swear that there's no heart in this city 
It's here the slogan reads "Do your time"
Everybody's doing their sentence 
It's just there ain't nobody here who knows just what's the crime 

I watched my father live a lie here 
I'd rather die than fade away 
I read the rules 
And yeah I know them 
You ain't ever gonna make me play the game of fear 
Fear 
Fear  
Of a new thing

Running with the rats through the city 
Makes you feel like you're a partner in crime 
Girl once you were young and pretty
Now all you stop and watch a little girl die

Hey baby, won't you stop and hear me 
Just being here we're breathing heart attacks 
Yeah
We can run
Chase the setting sun
Baby, we can run and we won't ever look back 
No

Take my hand I know we'll make it 
I'll let nothing slow us down 
I know you wanna curse this place
There's only one thing stopping us now 
It's fear
Fear
Fear 
Of a new thing 
Fear
Fear
Fear 
Of the brass ring 

You ain't one for taking chances 
You work and you live and you breathe 9 to 5 
Still that's what...you call living 
Hah
Man, that's surviving to me 
Surviving...is living to die in fear
Fear
Fear
Of a new thing
Fear
Fear
Fear
Of a brass ring
Fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear
Fear
 
 
 
I WANT YOU
 
The last time that I saw her
Was the night she said goodbye
She said that love's a stranger
And it's sure to pass you by, yes she did ...
As she packed up her belongings
Baby wouldn't look me in the eye
But I could see a tear roll
Off her face
As we both tried so hard
Not to cry she said

I never wanted the stars
Never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you
So baby just turn away
Because I can't face the truth
All I'm trying to say
Is all I wanted was you

I tried so hard to remember
When where how why love went away
I tried to drown myself in pity
But her memory kept calling your name, yes it did..

I bought you fancy cars and diamond rings
All the things that my money brings
And the servants to paint the sky blue
And I worked so hard seven days a week
And built a fortress for your heart to keep
If I could I'd wrap these words up for you

I never wanted the stars
Never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you
So baby just turn away
Because I can't face the truth
All I'm trying to say
Is all I wanted was you

I may have built for you a dreamhouse
But never thought you were alone
I filled the party up with company
But never made our house a home
All I got is my guitar, these chords and the truth
All I got is my guitar.... but all I want is you

I never wanted the stars
Never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you
So baby just turn away
Because I can't face the truth
All I'm trying to say
Is all I wanted was you













 
BLAME IT ON THE LOVE OF ROCK 'N' ROLL
 
 
Wooh! 
Ooh Yeah! 
Come on! 

First time I heard the music 
I thought it was my own 
I could feel it in my heartbeat 
I could feel it in my bones 

My momma thinks I'm crazy 
Dad says I'm insane 
I got the boogie woogie fever 
Burning in my veins 

They took me to a doctor 
But it's too late for me 
They dragged me to a preacher 
They saw on their tv 

He said that for a small donation 
Your lost soul will be saved 
I said I don't think so preacher 
I'll come back another day 

All that I want, is to be a Rolling Stone 
They don't understand what we all know 

It feels so good it ought to be illegal 
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle 
I'll never grow up, I'll never grow old 
Blame it on the love of rock & roll 

Hey! My teachers didn't like me 
they tried to put me down 
'cause I wore my hair too long 
Played my music way too loud 

Every little boy wants to learn to play guitar 
So he can pick up all the chicks 
And be a rock n roll star 
They said it won't last, but they misunderstood 
If people think it's bad, I'll be bad for good 

LORD! 

Ya know it feels so good it ought to be illegal 
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle 
I'll never grow up, and I'll never grow old 
Blame it on the love of rock & roll 
Blame it on the love, blame it on the love 

Well Daddy don't understand what the little girls know 
Blame it on the love of rock & roll 

All I wanted 
All I ever needed 
My guitar gave to me 

Every song I've sung, blame it on the love 
Every war I've won, blame it on the love 
Everything I've done, blame it on the love 

Blame it on the love of rock & roll 

It feels so good it ought to be illegal 
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle 
I'll never grow up and I'll never grow old 
Blame it on the love of rock & roll 
Blame it on the the love 
B-B-B-BLAME it on the love 
Daddy just don't get what his little girl knows
Blame it on the love of rock & roll
 
LITTLE BIT OF SOUL
 
You been robbed
You been used
You been crucified 
and abused
You been sacrificed and
Now you're confused
Ain't that the truth yeah

You got a hole in your head
And this cold empty spot
In your big brass bed
When you're mad at the world and
You're feel like you're losing control
All you need to get by is
A little bit of soul yeah

whowhowhowho a little bit o' soul yeah

When you've lost in the flood
When you feel like you been
Kicked in the mud
You know they still
Haven't found the drug
To pick us up

You're feeling down, misunderstood,
I know that these times
They ain't looking so good
When you're mad at the world and
You're feeling like you're losing control
All you need to survive is
A little bit of soul yeah

whowhowhowho a little bit o' soul yeah
whowhowhowho a little bit o' soul

Here we go!

Everyone's complaining
Nothing but frustration
The king has pissed in
Your pot of gold
It ain't entertaining spending
So much time in the hole
Lord send down
A little bit ....

wooh! (whistle)

When you're mad at the world
And you're feeling like
You're losing control
I know, I know
What we need
To survive is
A little bit of soul

whowhowhowho a little bit o' soul
whowhowhowho a little bit o' soul
Comon' Comon' !
whowhowhowho a little bit o' soul
whowhowhowho

(Lord wont you send it down just a little bit of soul
Send down a little bit of soul)

hoohoohoo!
hoohoohoo!