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##ALL CREDIT GOES OUT TO THE ORIGINAL TRANSCRIBER##
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Princess cards she sends me with her regards
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Oh, barroom eyes shine vacancy to see her you gotta look hard
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Wounded deep in battle I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted
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To her Cheshire smile I'll stand on file she's all I ever wanted
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But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts
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Honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back
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You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks
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You said here's your mirror and your ball and jacks
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But they're not what I came for and I'm sure you see that too
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I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency
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I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency
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and your cloud line urges me and my electric surges free
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Crawl into my ambulance your pulse is getting weak
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Oh, reveal yourself all now to me girl while you've got the strength to speak
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Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks
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But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask
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And don't call for your surgeon even he says it's too late
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It's not your lungs this time it's your heart that holds your fate
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Don't give me my money, honey, I don't want it back
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You and your pony face and your Union Jack
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Well take your local joker and teach him how to act
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I swear I was never that way even when I really cracked
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Didn't you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive
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Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound
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And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive
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You could laugh and cry in a single sound
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And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds
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Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the God
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Ah, you were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach
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Oh, remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach
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And the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek
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Yeah, that ragged, jagged melody she still clings to me like a leech
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But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way
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Like a little girl with a trophy so soft to buy her way
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We were both hitchhikers but you had your ear tuned to the roar
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Of some metal tempered engine on an alien distant shore
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So you left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
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And it's not that nursery mouth I came back for
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And it's not the way you're stretched out on the floor
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cause I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors
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And who am I to ask you to lick my sores
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And you should know that's true
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I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency
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I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency
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and your cloud line urges me and my electric surges free
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Written by Bruce Springsteen