All For A Woman

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

You say that you're grateful for the time alone

Two years away and I don't miss home

And someone asks you if you ever think of her

And 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 for days

She's above you, below you in ways

And you're shivering cold

Like you're just ten 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 inspires 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