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
Your whisperin fills the ear


Tell me you'll stay
We would have such fun

And a 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

You 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 swell
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 shiverin 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

And you've drowned in the teasing

You've forgotten the reason
The muse inspired the art


You'd give anything 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 light of a woman