Bruce Springsteen - For You lyrics

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 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 they 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