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{{Infobox song
| Name = The Horseshoe Wreath In Bloom
| Cover = AMC-LoveSongs.jpg
| Caption = ''Love Songs For Patriots'' cover
| Artist = [[start|American Music Club]]
| Album = [[Love Songs For Patriots]]
| Released = 2004
| Format = LP / CD
| Length = 4:40
| Label = [[Merge Records]] (US) / [[Cooking Vinyl]] (UK) / [[Devil In The Woods]] (UK LP)
| Writer = [[Mark Eitzel]]
| Producer = [[Mark Eitzel]] / [[Tim Mooney]]
| Tracks =
# "[[Ladies And Gentlemen]]"
# "[[Another Morning]]"
# "[[Patriot's Heart]]"
# "[[Love Is]]"
# "[[Job To Do]]"
# "[[Only Love Can Set You Free]]"
# "[[Mantovani The Mind Reader]]"
# "[[Home]]"
# "[[Myopic Books]]"
# "[[America Loves The Minstrel Show]]"
# '''"The Horseshoe Wreath In Bloom"'''
# "[[Song Of The Rats Leaving The Sinking Ship]]"
# "[[The Devil Needs You]]"
# "[[1000 Miles]]"
}}

'''"The Horseshoe Wreath In Bloom"''' is the 11th song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s 8th album, 2004’s ''[[Love Songs For Patriots]]''.

==Lyrics==
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 
a funny red nose, Rudolph jokes, memory failing

If you buy lottery tickets, you'll win some day 
A pile of dead scratchers with the gold and silver scratched away

He faces the manageress, he feels her bright disdain 
Watch 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 some 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 Colombia 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 Colombia gloom 
with many thanks for the life you led and the joy you made 
They'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 
But if you hammer the sun to the dawn you pound on the walls of doom 
and everyday further back and in a world we're not heroes or Superman 
Tourists 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 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.

==Video==

== Personnel ==
* [[Marc Capelle]] – piano, organ, brass arrangements
* [[Mark Eitzel]] – vocals, guitars, production
* [[Tim Mooney]] – drums, production, engineering
* [[Danny Pearson]] – bass
* [[Vudi]] – guitars

==Also appears on==
* ''[[Home]]'' promo Edit

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:AMC songs]]

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