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Horseshoe Man Lyrics
In the land of the broken hearted
People looking
for the horseshoe man
They've been
picking up little pieces
They've been
putting them all in his hand
And the way the story started
Two lovers long ago
Took a vow to live with hearbreak
Took a chance,
but how could they know...
...love?
How could they know love?
Love,
How could they know love?
Horseshoe man's
been working his magic
Fixing heartbreak everywhere
He's the one we all can count on
When we're lost
and don't know where love is
He takes the pieces in his hands
And shakes 'em up
like he doesn't care
He says that there
will always be heartbreak
Because love is everywhere
Love, I don't know about love
Love, I don't know...
Love don't care
if you're wrong or right
Love don't know if
you're black or white
Love ain't looking
for perfection
Love's the answer,
love's the question
Love, I don't know about love
Love, I don't know
Love, I don't know about love
Love, I don't know about love
People looking
for the horseshoe man
They've been
picking up little pieces
They've been
putting them all in his hand
Two lovers long ago
Took a vow to live with hearbreak
Took a chance,
but how could they know...
How could they know love?
Love,
How could they know love?
been working his magic
Fixing heartbreak everywhere
He's the one we all can count on
When we're lost
and don't know where love is
And shakes 'em up
like he doesn't care
He says that there
will always be heartbreak
Because love is everywhere
Love, I don't know...
if you're wrong or right
Love don't know if
you're black or white
Love ain't looking
for perfection
Love's the answer,
love's the question
Love, I don't know
Love, I don't know about love
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I LOVE this song! Why are there no comments?? Just take any line from this song, it's like full of aphorisms. So great. I wish there was a horseshoe man that came around and fixed people. Does anybody know what he's getting at with that? What's a horseshoe man?
As is often the case with Neil Young, it's a very abstract, impressionist picture he is painting and the meaning is often obscured. However, with a little insight into his personal life, it's easy to see that he and Pegi "took a vow to live with the heartbreak" of havingg a severly handicapped son. The song is all the more poignant from this perspective, but the horseshoe man represents the hope that keeps people going even though "there will always be heartbreak." "Love ain't looking for perfection" is as much a reference to the efforts of Neil and Pegi to make things work as it is to the fact that we don't people don't need to be perfect to be loved.
Great song! Don't know about the horseshoe man though!
This song is a gem. As always with this master Musician and songwriter the lyrics are ambiguous and dreamlike.
The thought behind the lyrics for me is: long ago some human couple must have taken the plunge for the first time, they fell in love and jumped in for the long haul.
The God-like protector over them - as their culture saw it then - was this immortal Indalo-figure. This rainbow man, this ancient symbol hinting - for me - at protecting and warding off evil as heartbreak is the actual horseshoe man. So google ‘indalo’ and ‘cave paintings’, listen to the song with the lyrics close and let me know if you’d agree.