Live 01 Jan 1979 version
[Spoken intro:] Alright... I... Here's, uh, like I said, this is the last night of our tour and like, like, in, uh, there's people here tonight that I've seen like in ten, 15, twenty different cities, you know, all along the way... And I know some of you guys save up your dough and go places where we're playing and stuff and I wanna say thanks a lot and this is for you and this is for Rod.
One, two, three, four!
Well, princess cards she sends me with her regards
Her barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard
I was wounded deep in battle, but 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"
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, 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, and 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
But 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's not 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
Take that local joker and teach him how to act
And 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
To leap tall buildings in a single bound?
Your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive
You could laugh and cry in a single sound
Ah hey 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
When the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek
That ragged, jagged melody still clings to me like a leech
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 hitchhiking 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 ain't that nursery mouth I came back for
And it ain't the way that you're stretched out on the floor
'Cause I've broken all your windows, rammed through all your doors
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
Your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free
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
The above lyrics are for the live 01 Jan 1979 performance of FOR YOU at Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, OH, during the Darkness On The Edge Of Town Tour. The song was played in its full-band album-style arrangement. Some of the lyrics for this version are reconstructed using the "original" lyrics for the song, as there are a number of cuts and skips in the circulating audio.
This was the last date of the tour.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of FOR YOU on this website:
FOR YOU [Album version]
