BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - For You lyrics

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Princess cards she sends me with her regards<br>Barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard<br>Wounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted<br>To her cheshire smile. I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted<br>But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts<br>Honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back<br>You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks<br>You said here's your mirror and your ball and jacks<br>But they're not what I came for, and I'm sure you see that too<br>I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency<br>I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long<br>Emergency<br>And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free<br><br>Crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak<br>Reveal yourself all now to me girl while you've got the strength to speak<br>`cause they're waiting for you at bellevue with their oxygen masks<br>But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask<br>And don't call for your surgeon even he says it's too late<br>It's not your lungs this time, it's your heart that holds your fate<br>Don't give me money, honey, I don't want it back<br>You and your pony face and your union jack<br>Well take your local joker and teach him how to act<br>I swear I was never that way even when I really cracked<br>Didn't you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive<br>Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? <br>And your chelsea suicide with no apparent motive<br>You could laugh and cry in a single sound<br><br>And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds<br>Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god? <br><br>You were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach<br>Remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach<br>And the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek<br>They ragged, jagged melody she still clings to me like a leach<br>But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way<br>Like a little girl with a trophy so soft to buy her way<br>We were both hitchhikers but you had your ear tuned to the roar<br>Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore<br>So you, left to find a better reason than the one we were living for<br>And it's not that nursery mouth I came back for<br>It's not the way you're stretched out on the floor<br>`cause I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors<br>And who am I to ask you to lick my sores? and you should know that's true<br>I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency<br>I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long<br>Emergency<br>And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free