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