For You - The Format

Princess cards she sends me

With her regards

Oh, 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’re saying, «Here's your mirror and your ball and jack»

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 the cloud line urges me

My electric surges free

Climb into my ambulance

Your pulse is getting weak

Oh, reveal yourself all now to me, girl

While you got the chance to speak

'Cause they’re waiting for you at Bellevue

With their oxygen masks

I could give it all to you now

If only you could ask

But 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

Well 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

'Cause I swore 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, uh-huh, oh-hoh

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 too proud

When I found you broken on the beach

Oh, 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

Oh that ragged, jagged melody

She still clings to me like a leech

But that medal you wore on your chest

Always got in your way

Like a little girl without 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 that alien, distant shore

And now 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 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 tell you to lick my sore?

And you should 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 the cloud line urges me

And my electric surges free