Ambulance Blues

Ambulance Blues Lyrics

Song Ambulance Blues
Artist Neil Young
Album On The Beach + BBC2 In Concert 1971
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[00:14.75] Back in the old folky days
[00:22.14] The air was magic when we played.
[00:29.35] The riverboat was rockin' in the rain
[00:36.31] Midnight was the time for the raid.
[00:43.73] Oh, Isabela, proud Isabela,
[00:51.40] They tore you down and plowed you under.
[00:59.13] You're only real with your make-up on
[01:06.53] How could I see you and stay too long?
[01:13.74] All along the Navajo Trail,
[01:21.50] Burn-outs stub their toes on garbage pails.
[01:28.75] Waitresses are cryin' in the rain
[01:35.85] Will their boyfriends pass this way again?
[01:43.52] Oh, Mother Goose, she's on the skids
[01:51.23] Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.
[01:58.57] She needs someone that she can scream at
[02:06.22] And I'm such a heel for makin' her feel so bad.
[02:13.87] I guess I'll call it sickness gone
[02:21.08] It's hard to say the meaning of this song.
[02:28.49] An ambulance can only go so fast
[02:35.90] It's easy to get buried in the past
[02:43.24] When you try to make a good thing last.
[03:58.77] I saw today in the entertainment section
[04:06.11] There's room at the top for private detection.
[04:13.66] To Mom and Dad this just doesn't matter,
[04:21.07] But it's either that or pay off the kidnapper.
[04:28.76] So all you critics sit alone
[04:36.09] You're no better than me for what you've shown.
[04:43.58] With your stomach pump and your hook and ladder dreams
[04:51.07] We could get together for some scenes.
[05:59.54] Well, I'm up in T.O. keepin' jive alive,
[06:07.03] And out on the corner it's half past five.
[06:14.23] But the subways are empty
[06:17.95] And so are the cafes.
[06:21.74] Except for the Farmer's Market
[06:25.36] And I still can hear him say:
[06:29.38] You're all just pissin' in the wind
[06:36.99] You don't know it but you are.
[06:44.19] And there ain't nothin' like a friend
[06:51.09] Who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind.
[07:44.07] I never knew a man could tell so many lies
[07:51.49] He had a different story for every set of eyes
[07:59.09] How can he remember who he's talking to?
[08:06.44] 'Cause I know it ain't me, and hope it isn't you.
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