Thrice
Artist In The Ambulance
Artist In The Ambulance
2003 Epitaph Records
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Key: G#

Chords used:
Fm - 133111
C# - x46664
G# - 466544
Eb - x68886
Cm - x35543


Verse 1:
Fm
  Late night brakes lock
                C#
hear the tires squeal
Red light can't stop 
              G#
so I spin the wheel
My world goes black before 
  Eb
I feel an angel lift me up
      Fm
And I open bloodshot 
C#
eyes into fluorescent white
     G#
They flip the siren hit the lights
Eb
close the doors and I am gone


Guitar Solo: Fm--C#--G#--Eb--


Verse 2:
      Fm
Now I lay here owing my 
           C#
life to a stranger
                   G#
And I realize that empty 
words are not enough
    Eb
I'm left here with 
the question of just
Fm
What have I to show except 
    C#
the promises I never kept?
  G#
I lie here shaking on this bed
  Eb
under the weight of my regrets


Chorus 1:
  C#
I hope that I will 
              Fm  Eb Cm
never let you down
  C#
I know that this can be more 
          Fm
than just flashing 
Eb         C#
lights and sound


Guitar Solo: Fm--C#--G#--Eb--


Verse 2:
Fm(hold)
  Look around and 
you'll see that at 
         C#
times it feels like 
no one really cares
G#(hold)
  It gets me down 
but I'm still 
             Eb
gonna try to do 
what's right I know that 
          Fm
there's A difference between sleight 
            C#
of hand and giving everything you have
G#
There's a line drawn in the sand
    Eb
I'm working up the will to cross it and


Chorus 2:
  C#
I hope that I will 
              Fm  Eb Cm
never let you down
  C#
I know that this can be more 
          Fm
than just flashing 
Eb         C#---
lights and sound


Bridge:
Fm
Rhetoric can't raise the dead
                   C#
I'm sick of always talking 
when there's no change
Fm
Rhetoric can't raise the dead
                  Eb
I'm sick of empty words
Cm
  let's lead and not follow


Verse 3:
Fm
  Late night brakes lock 
                C#
hear the tires squeal
Red light can't stop 
              G#
so I spin the wheel
My world goes black before I 
Eb
feel an angel steal me from the
Fm
Greedy jaws of death and chance
    C#
and pull me in with steady hands
        G#
They've given me a second chance
    Eb
the artist in the ambulance


Chorus 3:
  C#
I hope that I will 
              Fm  Eb Cm
never let you down
  C#
I know that this can be more 
          Fm
than just flashing 
Eb         C#
lights and sound
       Fm       Eb      C#
Can we pick you off the ground
          Fm       Eb         C#--- C#(hold)
more than flashing lights and sound