The Artist In The Ambulance

[Intro]
F5
  Late night, brakes lock,
                     Db5
hear the tires squeal
Red light,
                              Ab5
can't stop so I spin the wheel
                             Eb5
My world goes black before I feel an angel lift me up
      F5                 Db5
And I open bloodshot eyes   into fluorescent white
     Ab5
They flip the siren, hit the lights,
Eb5                      F5
close the doors and I am gone

[Verse 1]
Db5 Ab5
Eb5         F5                             Db5
   Now I lay  here owing my life to a stranger
                   Ab5
And I realize that empty words are not enough
    Eb5
I'm left here with the question of just

[Pre-Chorus]
F5                             Db5
What have I to show except the promises I never kept?
  Ab5
I lie here shaking on this bed,
  Eb5
under the weight of my regrets

[Chorus]
  Db5                            F5
I hope that I will never let you down
Eb5  Db5                                  F5       Eb5
   I know that this can be more than just flashing lights
    Db5
and sound

[Interlude]
    | F5  | - | Db5 |
| - | Ab5 | - | Eb5 |
| - |

[Verse 2]
F5                                            Db5
  Look around and you'll see that at times it feels like no
one really cares
Ab5                                             Eb5
   It gets me down but I'm still gonna try to do   what's
right, I know that there's

[Pre-Chorus]
F5
Difference between sleight of hand,
    Db5
and giving everything you have
Ab5
There's a line drawn in the sand,
    Eb5
I'm working up the will to cross it and

[Chorus]
  Db5                            F5
I hope that I will never let you down
Eb5  Db5                                  F5       Eb5
   I know that this can be more than just flashing lights
    Db5
and sound

[Bridge]
F5
Rhetoric can't raise the dead
                   Db5
I'm sick of always talking when there's no change
F5
Rhetoric can't raise the dead
                  Eb5
I'm sick of empty words,
C5          Db5
  let's lead   and not follow

[Verse 3]
F5
  Late night, brakes lock,
hear the tires squeal
Db5
   Red light,
can't stop so I spin the wheel
Ab5                             Eb5
   My world goes black before I feel an angel steal me from
the

[Pre-Chorus]
F5
Greedy jaws of death and chance,
    Db5
and pull me in with steady hands
        Ab5
They've given me a second chance,
    Eb5
the artist in the ambulance

[Chorus]
  Db5                            F5
I hope that I will never let you down
Eb5  Db5                                  F5       Eb5
   I know that this can be more than just flashing lights
         Db5
and sound
       F5       Eb5     Db5
Can we pick you off the ground,
          F5       Eb5        Db5
more than flashing lights and sound