Mr. Ambulance Driver
Wayne's Notes from the Album:
"The entire song, its key and chord structure, is built around the ambulance siren sample. When we first did it there was an eerie death coloring (probably due to the siren and the lyric about the girl being dead) that was very satisfying... But we found, with repeated listening, that the siren, somehow, subliminally disappeared and, to our surprise, it revealed a kind of Eddie Rabbitt (70's pop-country singer-songwriter) at the roller rink, easy listening teenager car crash ballad."
"The entire song, its key and chord structure, is built around the ambulance siren sample. When we first did it there was an eerie death coloring (probably due to the siren and the lyric about the girl being dead) that was very satisfying... But we found, with repeated listening, that the siren, somehow, subliminally disappeared and, to our surprise, it revealed a kind of Eddie Rabbitt (70's pop-country singer-songwriter) at the roller rink, easy listening teenager car crash ballad."
Waitin' for the ambulance to come
Hopin' that it doesn't come too late
Hearin' the sirens in the distance
Hold on help is on the way
Mr. Ambulance Driver I'm right here beside her
And though I'll live somehow I've found
Mr. Ambulance Driver I'm not a real survivor
'Cause I'm wishing that I was the one that
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Oh, we can't trade places
Our lives are strangely our own
Mr. Ambulance Driver tell me
For everyone that dies, someone new is born
Mr. Ambulance Driver I'm right here beside her
And though I'll live somehow I've found
Mr. Ambulance Driver I'm not a real survivor
'Cause I'm wishing that I was the one that
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Mr. Ambulance Driver I'm right here beside her
And though I'll live somehow I've found
Mr. Ambulance Driver I'm not a real survivor
'Cause I'm wishing that I was the one that
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
(Waitin' for the ambulance to come
Waitin' for the ambulance to come)
Mr. Ambulance Driver
Hopin' that it doesn't come too late
Hearin' the sirens in the distance
Hold on help is on the way
And though I'll live somehow I've found
Mr. Ambulance Driver I'm not a real survivor
'Cause I'm wishing that I was the one that
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Our lives are strangely our own
Mr. Ambulance Driver tell me
For everyone that dies, someone new is born
And though I'll live somehow I've found
Mr. Ambulance Driver I'm not a real survivor
'Cause I'm wishing that I was the one that
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
And though I'll live somehow I've found
Mr. Ambulance Driver I'm not a real survivor
'Cause I'm wishing that I was the one that
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Wasn't gonna be here anymore
Waitin' for the ambulance to come)
Mr. Ambulance Driver
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