[Verse 1]
Princess cards she sends me
With her regards
Barroom eyes shine vacancy
To see her you gotta look hard

[Verse 2]
I was wounded deep in battle
I stood stuffed like a soldier undaunted
To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file
She was all I ever wanted

[Pre-Chorus 1]
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, boy, here's your mirror, your ball and jacks"
But they ain't what I came for, and I’m sure you know that's true

[Chorus 1]
Baby, I came for you, for you, I came for you
But you did not need my urgency
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
[Verse 3]
Oh, crawl into my ambulance
Your pulse is getting weak
Reveal yourself just once for me, baby
While you've got the strength to speak

[Verse 4]
'Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue
With their oxygen masks
And I could give it all to you
If only you could ask

[Verse 5]
And don't call for your surgeon
Even he says it's too late
It ain't your lungs this time, baby
It’s your heart that holds your fate

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Don’t give me money, honey, I don't want it back
You and your pony face and your union jack
You can take that local joker and teach him how to act
You know, I was never that way, even, even when I really cracked
And didn’t you think I knew

[Chorus 2]
That you were born with the power of a locomotive
You could leap tall buildings in a single bound
And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive
You could laugh, you could cry in a single sound
[Verse 6]
Your strength is devastating
In the face of all these odds
Remember how I kept you waiting
When it was my turn to play the god?

[Verse 7]
And 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?

[Verse 8]
And the band, they played the homecoming theme
As I caressed your cheek
And that ragged, ragged, jagged melody
Still clings to me like a leach

[Verse 9]
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

[Verse 10]
We were both hitchhikers
But you had your ear tuned to the roar
Of some metal-tempered engine
On an alien, distant shore
[Pre-Chorus 3]
So you left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
And it ain't that nursery mouth I came back for
And it ain't 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?
You should know that's true

[Chorus 3]
Baby, I came for you
But you did not need it
For you, baby, I came for you
But your life was one long emergency
And your cloud line urges me
And my electric surges free