For You - Live at Hayden Planetarium, New York, NY August 2002

One! Two! Three! Four!

Princess cards she sends me with her regards
Where barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard
While 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

Well, 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"

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, but 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, 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
Oh, 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 ain't your lungs this time, it's your heart that holds your fate
Don't give me money, honey, I don't want it back
You and your pony face and your union jack

Well, take your local joker and teach him how to act
Oh, 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, eh he 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?
Oh, and the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek
Their 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 were like a little girl with a trophy so soft to buy her way
We were both hitchhiker but you had your ear tuned to the roar
Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore

You left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
It ain't that nursery mouth I came back for
It ain't the way that you're stretched out on the floor
I've broken all your windows
Rammed through all your doors
And who am I to ask you to lick my sores?
You should know that's true

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, my electric surges free

Oh, I came 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