Ambulance Blues (2016 Remaster) - Neil Young

Lyrics by：Neil Young

Produced by：Al Schmitt/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 Isabella proud Isabella

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

Old Mother Goose

She's on the skids

The 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

A 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 T O

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 sayin'

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 talkin' to

'Cause I know it ain't me

And hope it isn't you