《The Mayor of Candor Lied(LP版)》歌词

[00:08:28] In the little town of Candor in the last year of my youth

[00:08:28] I learned the final lesson of the levels to the truth

[00:08:28] My father was a farmer he'd go tilling in the ground

[00:08:28] My mother was a neighbor she'd go visiting around.

[00:08:28] But I didn't care.

[00:08:28] For I had found the answer to a plowboy's lonely prayer.

[00:08:28] She was the daughter of the Mayor.

[00:08:28] The Mayor fought my courtship for he'd made other plans

[00:08:28] He saw her married to a better man than a boy with farmer's hands.

[00:08:28] I said -- I hate your father, it's so hard not to strike him.

[00:08:28] She said --You know I love you because you're so much like him.

[00:08:28] And so I'd go sneaking in the evening

[00:08:28] And there she'd stand a crying in the dawn as I was leaving

[00:08:28] But the Mayor of Candor lied

[00:08:28] When he offered me his only daughter

[00:08:28] The Mayor of Candor tried

[00:08:28] To take her off across the water

[00:08:28] What a thing to do to a young man in love

[00:08:28] What a thing to do to your daughter.

[00:08:28] One day with father on his tractor and mother off again

[00:08:28] I go to find the mayor to work out what I can

[00:08:28] But he is not at his office, he is not at his home

[00:08:28] When I find him in the countryside he is not alone

[00:08:28] He's holding a woman and imagine my surprise

[00:08:28] As she jumps back from his arms I look into my mother's eyes

[00:08:28] The mayor of Candor lied

[00:08:28] All my thoughts of outrage, embarrassment and pain

[00:08:28] Were washed away by what then went roaring through my brain

[00:08:28] How the Mayor's at my mercy and I hear my own voice say --

[00:08:28] Your run for re-election sir is one month away.

[00:08:28] And the world will never know what I've seen here sir

[00:08:28] But I'll be with your daughter is my meaning clear sir?

[00:08:28] The Mayor of Candor lied

[00:08:28] When he offered me his only daughter

[00:08:28] The Mayor of Candor tried

[00:08:28] To take her off across the water

[00:08:28] What a thing to do to a young man in love

[00:08:28] What a thing to do to your daughter.

[00:08:28] My mother looks in horror at this compromise we made

[00:08:28] But the Mayor's rueful smile says the piper must be paid

[00:08:28] I had a month of joy in heaven from this deal I'd made in hell

[00:08:28] What was to happen then my friend the prophet could not tell

[00:08:28] The day after his re-election and the victory celebration

[00:08:28] The Mayor takes his family on a month long foreign vacation

[00:08:28] Oh Coleen -- you know how much I love you

[00:08:28] There is no one I'd ever place above you

[00:08:28] Oh Coleen -- you don't even know me

[00:08:28] To have you there's nothing that's below me.

[00:08:28] But time always passes after all

[00:08:28] And as the summer follows spring so does the winter follow fall

[00:08:28] The day that they return I stand waiting in the road

[00:08:28] I watch the car drive up I watch the passengers unload

[00:08:28] Of course she isn't there of course I should have known

[00:08:28] The Mayor says that she has stayed the decision is her own.

[00:08:28] He says " She's finishing her schooling, on that unseen foreign shore

[00:08:28] and I'll tell you very frankly boy, you'll not see her anymore

[00:08:28] The Mayor of Candor lied

[00:08:28] When he offered me his only daughter

[00:08:28] The Mayor of Candor tried

[00:08:28] To take her off across the water

[00:08:28] What a thing to do to a young man in love

[00:08:28] What a thing to do to your daughter.

[00:08:28] I spit out my hatred and my fury at his lies

[00:08:28] When he says you tried to blackmail me you're just as bad as I

[00:08:28] Go on and do your damndest boy, throw your mother to the streets

[00:08:28] You know it's been too many years I've had to be discreet

[00:08:28] And as he stands there saying we're just two of a kind

[00:08:28] It hits me like a thunderbolt exploding in my mind

[00:08:28] As I look into his leering aged wrinkled mirror of my own face

[00:08:28] He laughs and sneers and says -- Of course dear son --

[00:08:28] Where do you think you came from in the first place?

[00:08:28] The Mayor of Candor lied

[00:08:28] When he offered me his only daughter

[00:08:28] The Mayor of Candor tried

[00:08:28] To take her off across the water

[00:08:28] What a thing to do to a young man in love

[00:08:28] What a thing to do to your daughter.