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Jun 11th 2007!⃝Well....
For me this song is just...
About a person who lied very often. He didn't care about other more than he cared for himself.
An then he has an accident and is brought into an ambulance (I think that part has been made clear from the first stanza)
And then there is this part:
"Now I lay here owing my life to a stranger
And I realize that empty words are not enough
I'm left here with the question of just
What have I to show except the promises I never kept?
I lie here shaking on this bed, under the weight of my regrets"
He realizes that he barely did something meaningful, something important in his life. That he was not that good to the persons who loved him and that he loved.
I think he is near death in this ambulance. And there is this stranger and he/she saves his life WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING HIS NAME.
And that impresses him. He realizes that he had never been really happy in his life. That he has to change his life. He wants to become a better person, wants to give his life some weight.
That „Artist“ in the ambulance saved his life, he/she gave him a second chance to life, even though he hadn't been a good person.
(„They've given me a second chance, the artist in the ambulance“)
(I didn't know how to express my thoughts a better way, I hope it's understandable, because I'm German.)
