Ambulance Blues (Remastered Album Version) - Neil Young

Back in the old folky days

The air was magic when we played

The riverboat was rockin' in the rain

Midnight was the time for the raid

Oh Isabela

Proud Isabela

They tore you down

And plowed you under

You're only real with your make up on

How could I see you

And stay too long all along the Navajo Trail

Burn outs stub their toes on garbage pails

Waitresses are cryin' in the rain

Will their boyfriends pass this way again

Oh Mother Goose

She's on the skids

Shoe ain't happy

Neither are the kids

She needs someone

That she can scream at

And I'm such a heel

For makin' her feel so bad

I guess I'll call it sickness gone

It's hard to say the meaning of this song

An ambulance can only go so fast

It's easy to get buried in the past

When you try to make the good thing last

I saw today

In the entertainment section

There's room at the top

For private detection

To Mom and Dad

This just doesn't matter

But it's either that

Or pay off the kidnapper

So all you critics sit alone

You're no better than me

For what you've shown

With your stomach pump and your hook and ladder dreams

We could get together

For some scenes

Well I'm up in TO

Keepin' jive alive

And out on the corner

It's half past five

But the subways are empty

And so are the cafes

Except for the Farmer's Market

And I still can hear him say

You're all just pissin' in the wind

You don't know it but you are

And there ain't nothin' like a friend

Who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind

I never knew a man

Could tell so many lies

He had a different story

For every set of eyes

How can he remember

Who he's talking to

'Cause I know it ain't me

And I hope it isn't you