For You

Princess cards she sends me with her regards

Oh, bar room 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

Oh but you let your blue wall 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 said here's your mirror and your ball and jacks

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

Well, you did not need my urgency, I came for you

For you, I came for you

Well, your life was one long emergency

And your cloud line urges me and oh my electric surges free

Well, crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is gettin' weak

Reveal yourself all now to me, girl, while you've got the strength to speak

'Cause they're waitin' for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks

But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask

Whoa and 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

Don't give me my money, honey, I don't want it back

You and your pony face and you Union Jack

Well, take your local joker and teach him how to act

I swear 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

And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds

Remember how I kept you waitin' when it was my turn to be the god?

You were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach

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

Yeah, 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, just had your ears tuned to the roar

Of some metal tempered engine on an alien distant shore

So you left to find a better reason then the one we're livin' 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 ask you to lick my sores?

And you should know that's true

I came for you, for you, I came for you did not need my urgency

I came for you, for you, I came for you, your life was one long emergency

And your cloud line urges me and oh my electric surges free