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 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