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