[ti:Ambulance Blues] [ar:Neil Young] [al:On the Beach] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ambulance Blues (2016 Remaster) - Neil Young [00:04.95]Lyrics by:Neil Young [00:09.90]Produced by:Al Schmitt/Neil Young [00:14.85]Back in the old folky days [00:22.31]The air was magic when we played [00:29.80]The riverboat was rockin' [00:31.12]In the rain [00:36.62]Midnight was the time [00:39.06]For the raid [00:44.13]Oh Isabella proud Isabella [00:51.96]They tore you down and [00:56.09]Plowed you under [00:59.57]You're only real [01:02.29]With your make-up on [01:07.08]How could I see you [01:11.15]And stay too long [01:14.37]All along the Navajo Trail [01:22.09]Burn-outs stub their toes [01:24.35]On garbage pails [01:29.43]Waitresses are cryin' [01:31.67]In the rain [01:36.68]Will their boyfriends [01:38.39]Pass this way again [01:44.56]Old Mother Goose [01:48.27]She's on the skids [01:52.32]The shoe ain't happy [01:55.73]Neither are the kids [01:59.60]She needs someone [02:03.52]That she can scream at [02:07.46]And I'm such a heel [02:11.12]For makin' her feel so bad [02:14.92]I guess I'll call it [02:16.68]Sickness gone [02:22.08]It's hard to say [02:23.05]The meaning of this song [02:29.58]An ambulance can only [02:31.74]Go so fast [02:37.05]It's easy to get buried [02:38.89]In the past [02:44.57]When you try to make [02:46.40]A good thing last [04:00.46]I saw today [04:03.88]In the entertainment section [04:07.85]There's room at the top [04:11.64]For private detection [04:15.48]To Mom and Dad [04:19.08]This just doesn't matter [04:23.04]But it's either that [04:26.85]Or pay off the kidnapper [04:30.76]So all you critics sit alone [04:38.01]You're no better than me [04:40.03]For what you've shown [04:45.60]With your stomach pump and [04:47.75]Your hook and ladder dreams [04:53.24]We could get together [04:55.79]For some scenes [06:02.05]Well I'm up in T O [06:05.64]Keepin' jive alive [06:09.72]And out on the corner [06:13.47]It's half past five [06:17.08]But the subways are empty [06:20.74]And so are the cafes [06:24.70]Except for the Farmer's Market [06:28.31]And I still can hear him sayin' [06:32.28]You're all just pissin' [06:34.10]In the wind [06:40.01]You don't know it but you are [06:47.18]And there ain't nothin' [06:48.93]Like a friend [06:54.08]Who can tell you [06:55.18]You're just pissin' [06:56.51]In the wind [07:47.64]I never knew a man [07:51.35]Could tell so many lies [07:55.02]He had a different story [07:58.83]For every set of eyes [08:02.66]How can he remember [08:06.37]Who he's talkin' to [08:10.20]'Cause I know it ain't me [08:13.98]And hope it isn't you