FOR YOU^©

Live 28 Dec 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 was all I ever wanted
Baby 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 boy, here's your mirror, your ball, your jacks"
But they ain't what I came for, and I'm sure you know that too

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

Whoa, crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak
Reveal yourself just once for me girl while you've got the strength to speak
Cause 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
See, it ain't not your lungs this time baby, 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, face, and your union jack
Well you can take that local joker and teach him how to act
Cause you know I was never that way even when I really cracked
And, 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

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

Baby 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
And the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek
And that ragged, jagged melody, she still clings to me like a leach
And you know that, that medal you wore on your chest baby, and how it always got in the way
And you like a little girl with this trophy, yeah, real 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 and distant shore
So you left, so you left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
And it ain't that nursery mouth, ain't that nursery mouth that I came back for
And it ain't the way you're stretched out, it ain't the way you're stretched out on the floor
Because 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? Baby you should know that's true

Cause darling I came for you
Whoa, but you did not need me
And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free
Oooh

These lyrics refer to the 28 Dec 1975 solo piano performance at the Tower Theater, Philadelphia, PA. Check also the album version, live 05 Feb 1975 version, live 21 Dec 1975 version, live 05 Jul 1978 version, and the live 01 Jan 1979 version. All of them are very similar.