All for a Woman

All of these grateful looks, all these grateful eyes

All these furious stares, these fretful sighs

Promising everything to everyone

We'll be back soon, you're my favorite one

And I'll keep it quiet, I'll hold you dear, the whispering fills the ear

Tell me you'll stay, we would have such fun

And the lie, you don't need anyone

And the screams, the wails, and the call, the headiness of the fall

Ten-thousand miles from where we began

Fallin' asleep with a picture in hand, it was all for a woman

You say that you're grateful for the time alone

Two years away and I don't miss home

And someone asks you if you ever think of her

And you smile politely and you demur

Then all at once, your head starts to swim

You can feel her breath on your skin

You find that you stare, the same spot for days

She's above you, below you in ways

And you're shivering cold, like you're just 10 years old

And she's lying asleep in your bed

And you're standing beside her, the light from inside her

Filling up the darkness in your head

It was all for a woman

And you've drowned in the teasing, you've forgotten the reason

The muse inspires the art

And you'd give anything for her to say that once more

The words you believed at the start

Ten-thousand miles from where we began

Fallin' asleep with a picture in hand, it was all

It was all for the look in her eyes

Of the promise and the lie of a woman