For You - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK - November 1975

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 a soldier undaunted
To her Cheshire smile I'd stand on file, she was all I ever wanted

But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts
And 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

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 the cloud line urges m and my electric surges free

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
'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

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
Don't give me my 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 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

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

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
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

And you know that medal you wore on your chest and how it always got in the way
You were like a little girl with a trophy, ah, so soft to buy her way
We were both hitchhiking but you had your ear 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 that 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

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