For You-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:For You] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J./The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle/Darkness On The Edge Of Town] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]For You - Bruce Springsteen [00:13.81]Princess cards she sends me with her regards [00:20.27]Barroom eyes shine vacancy [00:23.92]To see her you gotta look hard [00:27.69]Wounded deep in battle [00:30.04]I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted [00:34.23]To her Cheshire smile [00:35.83]I'll stand on file she's all I ever wanted [00:42.46]But you let your blue walls [00:44.49]Get in the way of these facts [00:46.46]Honey get your carpetbaggers off my back [00:50.05]You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks [00:52.90]You said "Here's your mirror [00:55.11]And your ball and jacks" [00:56.95]But they're not what I came for [01:00.35]And I'm sure you see that too [01:03.14]I came for you for you I came for you [01:07.59]But you did not need my urgency [01:10.52]I came for you for you I came for you [01:14.63]But your life was one long emergency [01:17.56]And your cloud line urges me [01:21.04]And my electric surges free [01:25.27]Crawl into my ambulance [01:28.37]Your pulse is getting weak [01:32.34]Reveal yourself all now to me girl [01:35.87]While you've got the strength to speak [01:39.01]'Cause they're waiting for you [01:40.71]At Bellevue with their oxygen masks [01:46.23]But I could give it all to you now [01:50.05]If only you could ask [01:54.27]And don't call for your surgeon [01:56.79]Even he says it's too late [01:58.37]It's not your lungs this time [02:00.05]It's your heart that holds your fate [02:01.96]Don't give me my money honey [02:03.82]I don't want it back [02:05.11]You and your pony face and your Union Jack [02:08.87]Well take your local joker [02:10.66]And teach him how to act [02:12.26]I swear I was never that way [02:14.13]Even when I really cracked [02:16.78]Didn't you think I knew [02:18.64]That you were born with the power of a locomotive [02:22.95]Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound [02:26.23]And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive [02:29.97]You could laugh and cry in a single sound [02:33.42]Oh bright [02:40.38]And your strength is devastating [02:43.79]In the face of all these odds [02:47.54]Remember how I kept you waiting [02:51.03]When it was my turn to be the god [02:57.02]You were not quite half so proud [03:00.12]When I found you broken on the beach [03:03.69]Remember how I poured salt [03:06.17]On your tongue and hung just out of reach [03:10.58]And the band they played the homecoming theme [03:14.25]As I caressed your cheek [03:17.51]That ragged jagged melody [03:20.73]She still clings to me like a leech [03:26.28]But that medal you wore [03:27.81]On your chest always got in the way [03:29.88]Like a little girl with a trophy [03:31.81]So soft to buy her way [03:33.32]We were both hitchhikers [03:34.87]But you had your ear tuned to the roar [03:36.86]Of some metal-tempered engine [03:38.75]On an alien distant shore [03:40.57]So you left to find a better reason [03:42.26]Than the one we were living for [03:43.94]And it's not that nursery mouth [03:46.16]That I came back for [03:47.53]It's not the way you're stretched out on the floor [03:50.96]'Cause I've broken all your windows [03:52.71]And I've rammed through all your doors [03:54.70]And who am I to ask you to lick my sores [03:58.29]And you should know that's true [04:00.68]I came for you for you I came for you [04:04.83]But you did not need my urgency [04:08.06]I came for you for you I came for you [04:12.16]But your life was one long emergency [04:15.28]And your cloud line urges me [04:18.67]And my electric surges free