Princess cards she sends me
With her regards
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 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
And my electric surges free.
Crawl into my ambulance,
Your pulse is getting weak,
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
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
That ragged, jagged melody
She still clings to me like a leech.
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 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,
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
But your life was one long emergency
And your cloud line urges me
And my electric surges free.