The Horseshoe Wreath in Bloom - American Music Club

Now, here’s the story of the incredible shrinking man

Of a fatal disappointment met with a frozen margarita grin

Now see him blink in time to the hour hand

Funny red nose, Rudolph jokes, memory failing

If you buy lottery tickets you’ll win one day

A pile of dead scratchers with the gold and silver scratched away

He faces the manageress, he feels her bright disdain

Watches as she yawns all the way through his final scene

She makes it clear, «my dear» in no way does she wish him ill

She says, «there's no justice.

No, there’s just this bill»

If you buy lottery tickets you’ll win one day

A pile of dead scratchers with the gold and silver scratched away

And your horseshoe wreath, it’ll surely bloom

If you wait in the hotel bar all afternoon

If you wait in the hotel bar all afternoon

Ten years at the Columbia Hotel

For that you should win a fabulous prize

Like a lifetime room for a life that slipped away

A place to hide the asphalt and tarmac in his eyes

If you buy lottery tickets you’ll win one day

A pile of dead scratchers with the gold and silver scratched away

And your horseshoe wreath, it’ll surely bloom

If you wait in the hotel bar all afternoon

If you wait in the hotel bar all afternoon

You’ll see Ed McMahon and his gorgeous models emerge from the Columbia gloom

With many thanks for the life you led and the joy you made

He’ll give you a wad of paper and, yes, all your favorite balloons

And make an overly long speech about how you never let the bastards kill your

soul

And if you render the sun to dawn you pound of the walls of doom

And everyday fight the vacuum in a world without heroes and supermen

To shine like stars and cast no shadows across the room

And end up owning only a haystack, a needle and a spoon

They say we pardon to the degree that we love

But for most of us love is only a part in a cartoon

I know we pay for what we are, but let me please observe

You’re a king.

I know, I saw it written on your tomb

You’re a king.

I know, I saw it written on your tomb