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 Oh, 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 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 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 your cloud line urges me Oh, and my electric surges free Well, crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak Oh, reveal yourself all now to me, girl While you've got the strength to speak 'Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue With their oxygen masks But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask 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 your 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, alright 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 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 leech 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 ears tuned to the roar Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore So 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 And 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 But 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 Oh, and my electric surges free, ooh