Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

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

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

And the truth is, baby you're all that I need

[Chourus]

(Richie sings backround vocals three steps higher)

I want to lay you down in a bed of roses

For tonight I 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

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

[Chourus]

Bridge

Well this hotel bar's hangover whiskey's ran dry

The bar keeper's wig's crooked and she's givin' me the eye

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

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, to know that don't mean I'm not lonely

I've got nothin' to prove for it's you that I'd die to defend

[Chourus] x2