For You

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, and my electric surges free

Climb into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak

Oh, reveal yourself all now to me girl

While you've 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 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, oh oh, oh oh

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 leach

But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way

Like a little girl with 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're 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