All of these grateful looks
All these grateful eyes
All the furious stares and the fretful sighs


Promising everything
To everyone

We'll be back soon
You're my favorite one


And I'll keep it quiet
I'll hold you dear
The whispering fills the ear


Tell me you'll stay
We would have such fun

And the lie, you don't need anyone

And the screams, the wails, and the call

The headiness of the fall
Ten-thousand miles from where we began
I fell asleep with a picture in hand

It was all for a woman

Say that you're grateful for the time alone

Two years away and I don't miss home
And everyone asks you if you still think of her
So you smile politely and you demur


But then all at once your head starts to swim




And you can feel her breath on your skin

If I let you stay, the same spot today
She's above you, below you in ways


And you're shivering cold
Like you're just 10 years old
And she's lying asleep in your bed


And you're standing beside her
The light from inside her

Filling up the darkness in your head
It was all for a woman


You've drowned in the teasing
You've forgotten the reason
The muse inspired the art


You'd give anything for
For her to say them once more

The words you believed at the start

Ten-thousand miles from where it began

Falling asleep with a picture in hand
And it was all... it was all
For the look in her eyes

Of the promise of the lie of a woman