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 You can feel her breath on your skin You find that you stare at the same spot for days, She's above you, below you in waves.
And you're shiverin cold Like you're just ten years old She's lying asleep in your bed
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 her picture in hand And it was all... it was all For the look in her eye For the promise and the lie of a woman.