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FOR YOU 
Live 22 Nov 2009 version
[Spoken intro to Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. album performance:]
Good evening and thank you for filling these seats tonight! We've had a great,
great, great couple of years -- we started in October 2007, the Magic record, and uh, really it's
been just about the best time in, uh, our band's work life, and I want... Thank you for supporting
our new music, our old music, our tours. As we got towards the end of the tour, we're trying to
think of things we could do that would make our last nights special for our fans and for us, so we
started to play our albums, and uh, of course we played Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Born To Run,
we played the Wild and the Innocent, we played The River... but tonight! One time only! This was
the miracle. [laughs] This was the record that took everything from way below zero to... one! And
uh, big, big, big moment, big time. Um, hard to believe, but there was a guy at CBS Records named
John Hammond, one of the great legends of uh, the then, the music production, who uh, invited me
and my friend in straight off the streets of New York after my pal did what a lot of what must
have been incredible talking [laughs], and uh, these were some of the songs we played that day as
I sat across his desk, with just my acoustic guitar. So tonight, I'm gonna dedicate this to the
man who got me in the door; Mike Appel's here tonight -- Mike, this is for you!
[Performs BLINDED BY THE LIGHT]
[Performs GROWIN' UP]
[Performs MARY QUEEN OF ARKANSAS]
[Performs DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET]
[Performs LOST IN THE FLOOD]
[Performs THE ANGEL]
[FOR YOU:]
One, two, three, four!
Princess cards she sends me with her regards
Barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard
I was wounded deep in battle, I stood stuffed like some soldier undaunted
To her Cheshire smile I'd 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 mirror and your ball and jacks"
They ain't what I came for, I'm sure you see that too
I came for you, for you, darling, I came 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
And your cloud line urges me, 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
I could give it all to you here if only you could ask
Don't call for your surgeon, even he says it's too late
It ain't 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
Well, you can take that local joker and teach him how to act
You know 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 and cry in a single sound, 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
And the band, they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek
That ragged, jagged melody still clings to me like a leech
Well, that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way
You were 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's not that nursery mouth I came back for
And it's not the way that you're stretched out on the floor
'Cause I've broken all your windows and I rammed through all your doors
And who am I to ask you to lick my sores?
You should know it's true
I came for you, for you, darling, I came for you, you did not need my urgency
For you, for you, darling, I came for you, your life was one long emergency
Your cloud line urges me, my electric surges free
I came for you, for you, baby, I came for you
For you, for you, darling, I came for you
For you, for you, darling, I came for you
[laughs]
Page last updated: 16 Feb 2011
Info
The above lyrics are for the live 22 Nov 2009 performance of FOR YOU at HSBC
Arena in Buffalo, NY, during the Working On A Dream Tour. The song was played in its
traditional full-band arrangement.
Ticket stub for the 22 Nov 2009 show at HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY |
On this show Bruce and the band played the entire Greetings From Asbury Park,
N.J. album from start to finish and in sequence.
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Credits / References
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake).
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