| The Horseshoe Wreath In Bloom Written in the summer of 2003 and originally called "Hotel Bar." It was recorded in the fall of that year for "Love Songs For Patriots" and released in October 2004. It was first performed live in Portland in September 2004 and has been in setlist since. n.b. The Columbia Hotel is where AMC used to stay in London between 1992 & 1994 |
| Here's the story of the incredible shrinking man
Of fatal disappointment met with a frozen margarita grin Blinking 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 all Scratched away See him face 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 Says there's no justice there's just this bill 10 years at the Columbia Hotel For that there should be a fabulous prize A lifetime room for a life that slipped away To hide his asphalt and tarmac eyes If you buy lottery tickets you’ll win one day A pile of dead scratchers with the gold and silver all Scratched away And i’m sure my horseshoe wreath will surely bloom If I wait in the hotel bar all afternoon Just wait in the hotel bar every afternoon Ed McCann and the models will emerge from the gloom With big thanks for the life you lead and the joy you made Give up a wad of paper and all my favorite balloons I'll make a kick ass speech how you never let the bastards kill your soul How those who pound sun to dawn you pound of the walls of doom And fight the vacuum in a world without supermen How a star must never cast a shadow across the room I’m a king i know i wrote it on my tomb... |