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In the little town of Candor in the last year of
my youth
I learned the final lesson of the levels to the
truth
My father was a farmer he'd go tilling in the
ground
My mother was a neighbor she'd go visiting
around.
But I didn't care.
For I had found the answer to a plowboy's lonely
prayer.
She was the daughter of the Mayor.
The Mayor fought my courtship for he'd made other
plans
He saw her married to a better man than a boy
with farmer's hands.
I said -- I hate your father, it's so hard not to
strike him.
She said --You know I love you because you're so
much like him.
And so I'd go sneaking in the evening
And there she'd stand a crying in the dawn as I
was leaving
But the Mayor of Candor lied
When he offered me his only daughter
The Mayor of Candor tried
To take her across the water
What a thing to do to a young man in love
What a thing to do to your daughter.
One day with father on his tractor and mother off
again
I go to find the mayor and work out what I can
But he is not at his office, he is not at his
home
When I find him in the countryside he is not
alone
He is holding a woman and imagine my surprise
As she jumps back from his arms I look into my
mother's eyes
All my thoughts of outrage, embarrassment and
pain
Were washed away by what came roaring through my
brain
The Mayor's at my mercy and I hear my own voice
say --
Your run for re-election is just one month away.
And the world will never know of what I've seen
here sir
But I'll be with your daughter is my meaning
clear?
My mother looks in horror at the compromise we
made
But the Mayor's rueful smile says the piper must
be paid
I had a month of joy in heaven from this deal I'd
made in hell
What was to happen then my friend a prophet could
not tell
The day after his re-election and the victory
celebration
The Mayor takes his family on a month long
foreign vacation
Oh Coleen -- you know how much I love you
There is no one I'd ever place above you
Oh Coleen -- you don't even know me
To have you there's nothing that's below me.
But time always passes after all
And as the summer follows spring so does the
winter follow fall
The day that they return I stand waiting on the
road
I watch the car drive up I watch the passengers
unload
Of course she isn't there of course I should have
known
The Mayor says that she has stayed the decision
was her own.
I spit out my hatred and my fury at his lies
When he says you tried to blackmail me you're
just as bad as I
He says -- Go and do your damndest, throw your
mother to the streets
You know it's been too many years I had to be
discreet
And as he stands there saying we're just two of a
kind
It hits me like a thunderbolt exploding in my
mind
As I look into his leering aged wrinkled mirror
of my own face
He laughs and sneers and says -- Of course dear
son --
Where do you think you came from in the first
place?
The Mayor of Candor lied
When he offered me his only daughter
The Mayor of Candor tried
To take her across the water
What a thing to do to a young man in love
What a thing to do to your daughter.
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