All for a Woman

All of these grateful looks All these grateful eyes All the furious stares and the 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 I fell 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 But then all at once, your head starts to swim And you can feel her breath on your skin If I let you stay, the same spot for days She's above you, below you in ways And you're shivering cold Like you're just ten 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 You've drowned in the teasing You've forgotten the reason The muse inspires the art You'd give anything for For her to say them once more The words you believed at the start Ten-thousand miles from where it began Falling asleep with a picture in hand And it was all, it was all For the look in her eyes Of the promise, of the lie of a woman