FOR YOU^©

Live 05 Feb 1975 version

Princess cards she sends me with her regards
Her barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you have to look hard
I was wounded deep in battle, but I stood stuffed like some soldier undaunted
To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted
But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts
Oh honey, get down carpetbaggers off my back
You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks
You said "Here boy, here's your mirror and your ball and your jacks"
But they ain't what I came for, and I'm sure you know that too

I came for you, baby I came for you, but you did not need need my urgency
For you, for you, baby I came for you, but your life was one long emergency
The cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free

Crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak
Reveal yourself now for me girl while you've got the strength to speak
Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue, oh with their oxygen masks
But I could give it all to you right here if only you would ask
And don't call for your surgeon, even he says it's too late
You see it ain't your lungs this time baby, now it's your heart that holds your fate
Don't give me my money, honey I don't want it back
You and your pony face and your union jack
Well you can take that local joker and teach him how to act
I swear I was never that way even when I really cracked
Didn't you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound?
Your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive
You could laugh, you could cry in a single sound

But your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds
Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god

You were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach
Oh remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach
Oh and the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek
And that ragged, jagged melody still clings to me like a leach
And that medal you wore on your chest, you know how it always got in the way
Oh just like a little girl searching for a way*
We were both hitchhikers but you had your ear tuned to the roar
Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore
Honey, last night ??? there for*
??? the way you're stretched out on the floor
Cause I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors
And who am I to ask you to lick my sores? You should know it's true

Baby I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need it
For you, for you, baby I came for you, but your life was one long emergency
And my cloud line urges me, my electric surges free
Oooh

These lyrics refer to the 05 Feb 1975 performance at The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA. This solo piano performance is considered to be the greatest ever of this song. Check also the album version, live 21 Dec 1975 version, live 28 Dec 1975 version, live 05 Jul 1978 version, and the live 01 Jan 1979 version. All of them are very similar.

* The main difference between this version and the album version.

Spoken intro on 05 Feb 1975 at The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA:

Some girl... It's her birthday. What is your name darlin'? [crowd: Cindy]. Alright. This is... for Cindy. Alright. This is for her I guess.