Lay me down on a bed of roses

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The angels of correct grammar and writing are descending from the heavens rejoicing that a song is using correct grammar.
My little sister was listening to her iTouch in my car the other day and the song "If I die young" from the The Band Perry comes on (http://youtu.be/7NJqUN9TClM). As she's singing to it I listen to the words and I notice that the song is actually grammatically correct. Hurray for smart songwriters!
What really got me to like this pop/country band is the line "Lay me down on a bed of roses". Most of the time singers ignore the rules for lie and lay and just put things however they want.
Lay is when an object is being put down and lie is when you put yourself down. I lay the baby on my bed every morning. I lie on the bed when I fall asleep. However, this is only in the present. When we get all complicated and start thinking about past tense and past participle we can reference Grammar Girl (http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/lay-versus-lie.aspx). In reality she explains it best. BUT, and this is a big but, as a writer myself, I try to avoid rules that are too complicated to remember. Of course, there are times when it is inevitable and you have to look up the rule (hopefully you do when you are unsure). For the most part I just use another set of words to get my point across. Most of the time it sounds better.
When you lie down, you are doing just that: Lying down. How about we add some character to that action? You throw yourself on the bed. You crumble onto the bed. You slink down on the bed. You get the point. Don't get stuck using one set of words. Expand yourself, and always remember to use the correct grammar.

Happy grammar,
KLM