Ambulance Vs. Ambulance

(Album: Burn Piano Island, Burn - 2003)

Ambulance X extracts several consultants
From the slow gumming death: office orifice
Ambulance Y imprisons the sigh
Of recent amputee and dumps her in the xylophone trees
Ambulance X scours the tanning complex
For repunzels rotting in their skin cooking coffins

Ambulance Y drops the body at the door step

Ambulance X pulls you out of the party
And rubs your freckles like a DJ to his records
But Ambulance Y teaches you the word goodbye
And cuts off your hands to show you where you stand

Under the monolith, under the monolith
Of what is love and what is scam
What is sun and what is tan

The Ambulance Angels
Pull up to your doorstep
The sirens flash emergency
Oh yeah, "you'd better come quick."
The Ambulance Angels
Chisel a crack in your mouth
And then they paint a landscape
With your regret and shouts

Roll tape and decode the moans
Roll tape and decode the moans
Let's ventilate the scandal from these locked up mouth holes
Roll tape and decode the moans

You'll never see your wife and children again
So tell us what was going through your head
When you looked in, into their eyes
And said "no thanks I'll take the hooker instead"

Roll tape and decode the moans
Roll tape and decode the moans
Let's ventilate the scandal from these locked up mouth holes
Roll tape and decode the moans
Roll tape and decode the moans

You'll never see that office again
So when the nurse amputates both of your thighs
Come a little bit closer to the mic
And tell us what you miss more, your desk or the hungry sky

The Ambulance Angels
Pull up to the graveyard
And leave you there bubbling
Broken sonnets and shards
The Ambulance Angels
Notify your next of kin
And show them the scrap book
Of your operation:
His head was a faucet
Leaking love, laughter and lies:
All his secret wishes
All his world famous sighs
Before you remember
Oh yeah, before you give in
Just remember we're coming
Back for your children