For You

歌詞

Princess cards she sends me With her regards Oh, barroom eyes shine vacancy To see her you gotta look hard Wounded deep in battle I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted To her cheshire smile, I'll stand on file She's all I ever wanted But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts Honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks You're saying, "Here's your mirror and your ball and jack" But they're not what I came for And I'm sure you see that, too I came for you, for you, I came for you But you did not need my urgency I came for you, for you, I came for you But your life was one long emergency And the cloud line urges me My electric surges free Climb into my ambulance Your pulse is getting weak Oh, reveal yourself all now to me, girl While you got the chance to speak 'Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue With their oxygen masks I could give it all to you now If only you could ask But don't call for your surgeon Even he says it's too late It's not your lungs this time It's your heart that holds your fate Well don't give me my money, honey I don't want it back You and your pony face And your Union Jack Well take your local joker And teach him how to act 'Cause I swore I was never that way Even when I really cracked Didn't you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive You could laugh and cry in a single sound, uh-huh, oh-hoh And your strength is devastating In the face of all these odds Remember how I kept you waiting When it was my turn to be the god? You were not quite half too proud When I found you broken on the beach Oh, remember how I poured salt on your tongue And hung just out of reach? And the band, they played the homecoming theme As I caressed your cheek Oh that ragged, jagged melody She still clings to me like a leech But that medal you wore on your chest Always got in your way Like a little girl without a trophy So soft to buy her way We were both hitchhikers But you had your ear tuned to the roar Of some metal-tempered engine On that alien, distant shore And now you left to find a better reason Than the one we were living for And it's not that nursery mouth I came back for It's not the way you stretched out on the floor 'Cause I've broken all your windows And I've rammed through all your doors And who am I to tell you to lick my sore? And you should see that, too I came for you, for you, I came for you But you did not need my urgency I came for you, for you, I came for you But your life was one long emergency And the cloud line urges me And my electric surges free