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, and my electric surges free      Climb into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak   Oh, reveal yourself all now to me girl   While you've 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 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, oh oh, oh oh      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 leach   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 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'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 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