[00:02.97]written by Bruce Springsteen
[00:13.79]Princess cards she sends me with her regards
[00:20.35]Whoa, barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard
[00:27.75]Wounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted
[00:34.37]To her Cheshire smile I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted
[00:42.54]Oh, but you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts
[00:46.77]Honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back
[00:50.28]You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks
[00:53.39]You said, "Here's your mirror and your ball and jacks"
[00:57.23]But they're not what I came for, and I'm sure you see that too
[01:03.25]I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency
[01:10.76]I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency
[01:17.99]And your cloud line urges me, oh, and my electric surges free
[01:25.43]Oh, crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak
[01:32.28]Oh, reveal yourself all now to me girl while you've got the strength to speak
[01:39.06]'Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks
[01:46.44]But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask
[01:54.55]Whoa, and don't call for your surgeon, even he says it's too late
[01:59.16]It's not your lungs this time, it's your heart that holds your fate
[02:02.19]Don't give me my money, honey, I don't want it back
[02:05.44]You and your pony face and your union jack
[02:09.01]We'll take your local joker and teach him how to act
[02:12.42]I swear I was never that way even when I really cracked
[02:16.97]Didn't you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive
[02:21.01]Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound?
[02:26.46]And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive
[02:30.30]You could laugh and cry in a single sound
[02:33.69]Alright
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[02:37.32]Mmm
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[02:40.45]And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds
[02:47.72]Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god
[02:57.12]You were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach
[03:03.78]Oh, remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach
[03:10.71]And the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek
[03:17.72]Yeah, that ragged, jagged melody, she still clings to me like a leech
[03:26.45]But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way
[03:30.37]Like a little girl with a trophy so soft to buy her way
[03:33.59]We were both hitchhikers but you had your ears tuned to the roar
[03:37.38]Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore
[03:41.17]So you left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
[03:44.21]And it's not that nursery mouth I came back for
[03:48.01]It's not the way you're stretched out on the floor
[03:51.11]'Cause I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors
[03:54.18]And who am I to ask you to lick my sores?
[03:57.92]And you should know that's true
[04:00.80]I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency
[04:08.12]I came for you, for you, I came for you, your life was one long emergency
[04:15.65]And your cloud line urges me, oh, and my electric surges free
[04:22.09]Ooooh, ooh ooh
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