For You [Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75]

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Princess cards she sends me With her regards Barroom eyes shine vacancy To see her you gotta look hard [Verse 2] I was wounded deep in battle I stood stuffed like a soldier undaunted To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file She was all I ever wanted [Pre-Chorus 1] 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, boy, here's your mirror, your ball and jacks" But they ain't what I came for, and I'm sure you know that's true [Chorus 1] Baby, I came for you, for you, I came for you But you did not need my urgency For you, for you, I came for you But your life was one long emergency And your cloud line urges me And my electric surges free [Verse 3] Oh, crawl into my ambulance Your pulse is getting weak Reveal yourself just once for me, baby While you've got the strength to speak [Verse 4] 'Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue With their oxygen masks And I could give it all to you If only you could ask [Verse 5] And don't call for your surgeon Even he says it's too late It ain't your lungs this time, baby It's your heart that holds your fate [Pre-Chorus 2] Don't give me money, honey, I don't want it back You and your pony face and your union jack You can take that local joker and teach him how to act You know, I was never that way, even, even when I really cracked And didn't you think I knew [Chorus 2] That you were born with the power of a locomotive You could leap tall buildings in a single bound And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive You could laugh, you could cry in a single sound [Verse 6] Your strength is devastating In the face of all these odds Remember how I kept you waiting When it was my turn to play the god? [Verse 7] And 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? [Verse 8] And the band, they played the homecoming theme As I caressed your cheek And that ragged, ragged, jagged melody Still clings to me like a leach [Verse 9] But that medal you wore on your chest Always got in the way Like a little girl with a trophy so soft To buy her way [Verse 10] We were both hitchhikers But you had your ear tuned to the roar Of some metal-tempered engine On an alien, distant shore [Pre-Chorus 3] 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 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 that's true [Chorus 3] Baby, I came for you But you did not need it For you, baby, I came for you But your life was one long emergency And your cloud line urges me And my electric surges free