Princess cards she sends me, with her regards
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Oh, barroom eyes shine vacancy
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To see her you gotta look hard
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Wounded deep in battle
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I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted
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To her cheshire smile I'll stand on file
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She's all I ever wanted
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But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts
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Honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back
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You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks
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You're saying, "Here's your mirror and your ball and jack"
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But they're not what I came for
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And I'm sure you see that too
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I came for you, for you, I came for you
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But you did not need my urgency
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I came for you, for you, I came for you
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But your life was one long emergency
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And the cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free
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Climb into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak
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Oh, reveal yourself all now to me girl
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While you've got the chance to speak
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'Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue
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With their oxygen masks
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I could give it all to you now if only you could ask
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But don't call for your surgeon even he says it's too late
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It's not your lungs this time
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It's your heart that holds your fate
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Well don't give me money, honey, I don't want it back
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You and your pony face and your union jack
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Well take your local joker and teach him how to act
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'Cause I swore I was never that way even when I really cracked
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Didn't you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive
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Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound?
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And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive
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You could laugh and cry in a single sound, oh oh, oh oh
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And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds
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Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god?
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You were not quite half too proud when I found you broken on the beach
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Oh, remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach?
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And the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek
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Oh that ragged, jagged melody, she still clings to me like a leach
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But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way
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Like a little girl with a trophy so soft to buy her way
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We were both hitchhikers but you had your ear tuned to the roar
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Of some metal-tempered engine on that alien, distant shore
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And now you left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
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And it's not that nursery mouth I came back for
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It's not the way you're stretched out on the floor
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'Cause I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors
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And who am I to tell you to lick my sore?
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And you should see that too
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I came for you, for you, I came for you
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But you did not need my urgency
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I came for you, for you, I came for you
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But your life was one long emergency
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And the cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free
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For You
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