FOR YOU^©

Live 01 Jan 1979 version

One, two, three, four

Princess cards she sends me with her regards
Her barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta 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
Honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back
You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks
You said "Here's your fear and your ball and jacks"
But they ain't what I came for, and I'm sure you see that too

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

Crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak
Reveal yourself now to me girl while you've got the strength to speak
They're waiting for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks
But I could give it all to you here if only you would ask
Don't call for your surgeon, even he says it's too late
It's not your lungs this time, 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
Take your local joker and teach him how to act
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
To leap tall buildings in a single bound?
Your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive
You could laugh and cry in a single sound
hey hey hey

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
Remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach
When the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek
That ragged, jagged melody she still clings to me like a leach
But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way
You're like a little girl with a trophy so soft to buy her way
We were both hitchhikers but you had your ears tuned to the roar
Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore
So you, left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
And it ain't that nursery mouth I came back for
And it ain't that way that you're stretched out on the floor
Cause I've broken all your windows, rammed through all your doors
Who am I to ask you to lick my sores? You should know

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

These lyrics refer to the 01 Jan 1979 full band performance at Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland, OH. Check also the album version, live 05 Feb 1975 version, live 21 Dec 1975 version, live 28 Dec 1975 version, and the live 05 Jul 1978 version. All of them are very similar.