When Love Let Me Down

Was it Mercury in retrograde, Or the moon in Capricorn? Did my horoscope predict this fate? Was it destined the day I was born? When love let me down I was walking the track With a train coming on, And a bullseye on my back. Was my magic crystal counterfeit? My aura inauspicious? Did the healing drum, and the circle dance, And the sweat lodge not redeem us? When love let me down She’d done broken the bank With no gold left to dig, And no gas left in the tank. It’s not transcendent wisdom, Just common sense is all. When a fantasy’s deflated By acupuncture needles, And the numerology doesn’t add up, It can cause a man to stumble On all the New Age mumbo-jumbo, And lay him out spread-eagle, to his shame. When love let me down I got back on my feet. Worked hard, bought a house, Ended up on Easy Street. Yeah, that’s the life for me.