Lyrics for Ambulance as interpreted by BillyPilgrim

Ambulance Lyrics
your slim frame
your eager eyes
and your wild mane
oh they keep me where i belong
all wrapped up in wrong

you're to blame
for wasted words of sad refrain
oh let them take me where they may
believe me when i say

oh i will be your accident
if you will be my ambulance
i will be your screech and crash if you will be my crutch and cast
i will be your one more time if you will be my one last chance
so fall for me

your slime frame
your simple stare
and your wrong wrong name
they keep me where i belong
all strung out in song

while i so tamed
where we can shoot other vines through your good name
sip sweet from nights deep wells
and watch are garden swim as our seeds are soaked
while overgrown
you will see
hearts colors change like leaves

oh sweet sweet dream fall for me
fall fast fall free fall for me
because
oh i will be your ambulance
if you will be my accident
i will be your screech and crash if you will be my crutch and cast
and i will be your one more time if you will be my one last chance
so sweet dream fall with me
fall fast fall free fall with me

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bloodthirsty_babes
05-03-2008

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this song seems to be about the imbalanced "relationship" that a lot of people have with god, in which it is all take and very little give.

i was lead to believe this because the first few lines seem to reference an image of jesus christ on the cross: "your slim frame, your eager eyes, and your wild mane." and "fall for me."

anyway the bigger idea being that people USE and abuse the concept of god in thinking that he is an external entity and "saviour" that will responsibly make sure you are ok, regardless of your own decisions and actions. that would be the idea of "using" him as a crutch and cast, or ambulance.

so bottom line, i interpret this as misguidedly USING the concept of god as consolation rather than realizing you yourself are entirely responsible for your happiness and well-being. which i have observed in many of the christians i have known.

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hyperballadgirl
11-30-2007

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This song is so beautiful and haunting. My perspective broadens as I listen.

"oh i will be your accident
if you will be my ambulance" -- beautiful. The shift from the intro and into this chorus (if that is what it can be called) is excellent.

Quite reflective.

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Rhymenocerous_
11-26-2007

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these lines:
"oh i will be your accident
if you will be my ambulance
i will be your screech and crash if you will be my crutch and cast
i will be your one more time if you will be my one last chance"

almost convey being desperate. the singer will be just an accident to the girl, but he needs to girl, to be his ambulence.

to me, he is very in love with her, and she doesnt return the depth of his infatuation. maybe she used to be, but as he says in the lines "hearts colors changed like leaves," her feelings went away, she no longer loves him.

this song is very powerful, i love it.

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quietroad
08-02-2007

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I love this song so damn much. The meaning seems pretty blatant to me, but I smile every time I hear this. I'm sure this song rings true to a lot of people.

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_Cat_
06-18-2007

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I wish the right lyrics were up here...they're so much better than these ones!

Beautiful song though. I love the fact that it's a capella too - makes it even more haunting.

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orchidaceae
06-04-2007

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i thought it was about kyp malone's daughter, until i found out he wasn't the lead singer, only the guitarist! i guess he could have written it, even though he didn't sing it.
anyways, it's a really sweet song, regardless of what it's about

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Nocturn
10-29-2006

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The Drummers Angel, have you listened to the song? There arn't moshers to it because its a slow, soft song. If they played Staring at the Sun, or Wolf Like Me, then maybe but Ambulance is one of their slower more melodic songs, it isn't meant to be a get up and dance number, though I often do to their live version because its amazing.

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dri-ft
10-03-2006

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i think this is about an abusive relationship, where there is just enough that you love to "keep you where you belong/all wrapped up in wrong", but you're still aware that it is an unhealthy thing.

and "i will be your accident if you will be my ambulance" is, like, uh....

it's like, loving each other, but in a broken way.

"co-dependency?"

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Pantalaimon
06-30-2006

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You know, the lyrics are in the cd booklet.

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Rasio
06-11-2006

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I saw them live last night, I was pretty into it, they played The Wrong Way, Dreams, Young Lairs, and three others I havnt been able to identify yet, although I have some lyrics I managed to catch from each. I really enjoyed them, it was REALLY good filler on the wait for NIN to get on stage, XD.

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The_Drummers_Angel
06-03-2006

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Since this seems to be the most popular song by this band, I'll post this here:
I seen them live at a music festival, and it just seemed a little.... boring to me. Maybe they're just not good with performing live or maybe it's just not my kind of music, but they could have been better. I know I wasn't the only one at the concert festival to think this... you know a band isn't doing so well when the moshpit is half empty and no one is screaming/singing along/dancing/pushing in the crowd.

And don't bother trying to start a fight with me and getting all hardcore with your keyboard because I'll probably ignore it.
After all, I'm just stating my opinion and like I said, I only seen them live, maybe their CDs are better.

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muffinhead54-46
05-20-2006

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In the first verse he's singing about him being the destructive things (accident, screech and crash) and the girl (i'm assuming) being the one that fixes things (ambulance, crutch and cast). So at first it's like he's saying that he needs her to help him fix his life and that he could be the drama that her life is lacking. But the the ambulance and accident switch in the last verse, so it just gives the feeling that they complete each other.
The part about wrong name makes me think about Romeo and Juliet, that she's someone that he's not supposed to be with, but I suppose that's pretty far fetched.

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dreame1989
05-06-2006

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i agree with mark sandman. even with songs like blind and satelite the lyrics could just as easily be poetry.

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YtseJam
01-15-2006

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Or instead you could post the correct lyrics in our forum (Report thread) and we'll update them...

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sarcasticSmith
01-15-2006

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those lyrics are quite bad. if you want the correct ones, look somewhere else.

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strokesman
12-21-2005

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la la lal ala lalala

awesome song, would love to hear it live

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indiefreak
09-07-2005

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This song leaves me breathless everytime i hear it...except its a thousand times better live. i saw them about 5 ft away from me in osaka...the only white guy in the band rips shit up on the mic, beat boxes like ive never heard before but sadly its not on the album...they are amazing live..they put you in some sort of trans with their lyrics, their whole aura and body movements..they are awesome guys too!

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MarkSandman
05-22-2005

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Part before the second chorus (can't really call it a verse since the song barely follows the conventional verse-chorus-verse structure)

...Why so tame?
We could shoot wonder vines through younger veins
Sip slow from night's deep wells
And watch our gardens swell
Once the seeds are soaked
Wild and overgrown
You'll see heart's colours change like leaves
Oh, sweet, sweet tree, fall for me
Fall fast, fall free, fall for me...

Sad thing is, everybody who reviewed this album - from the Pitchforkmedia to a 13-year-old pimply teenager on epinions.com - talked about music and music only. Well, almost exclusively. Lyrics get little to no attention. Which is a shame, because they are bloody amazing. Take this song for instance - Auden and Snyder would be jealous. In my humble opinion - gotta remain objective, y'know - 'Ambulance' is one of the better poems about such a trivial subject as unrequited love to be ever put to music. Second "verse" - the one I just retyped - is sheer brilliance. Adebimpe is comparing love to a drug addiction ("shoot wonder vines through younger veins") and a blossoming garden ("watch our gardens swell") at the same time. Extreme, reckless, addictive, destructive pleasure is both contrasted with and complemented by life creation ("once the seeds are soaked"). Isn't that what love is, really, at least in the conventional sense of the word? Contrast continues throughout the chorus: "ambulance/accident", "screech&crash/crutch&cast", swelling gardens and falling trees, injure and healing, destruction and creating...

Beautiful. Bloody beautiful.

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RUsmith23
01-25-2005

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Whenever I hear this song, I get chills. It was introduced to me bya friend, and now I love Tv on the Radio.

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precipitate
12-28-2004

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this song is amazing

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thedottedlion
11-26-2004

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pretty good, but I always thought the fifth part went like this... "Why so tame? We could shoot wilder vines through younger veins. Sip slow from night's deep wells and watch our garden swell once the seeds are sown, wild and overgrown, you'll see..." etc etc etc.

And I think it's "sweet TREE fall for me." It makes sense to me anyway.

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golgo
11-25-2004

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The fifth verse seems very off to me.

Probably my favorite song on the album. A great extended metaphor/conceit on chaos/death and love.

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soyer
10-15-2004

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The lyric is wrong.After "because", they are not total correct. the "ambulance" and "accident" are switch

because
i will be your ambulance
if you will be my accident

and i thing there is something missing in the next lines

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DangerDiabolik
10-14-2004

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These lyrics are very wrong.

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sweetadeline
05-27-2004

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such a wonderful song

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