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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In the little town of Candor,
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in the last year of my youth
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I learned the final lesson of
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the levels to the truth
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he'd go tilling in the ground
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My mother was a neighbor,
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she'd go visiting around
Verse 2
For I had found the answer to
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a plowboy's lonely prayer
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She was the daughter of the mayor
Verse 3
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mayor fought my courtship,
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for he'd made other plans
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He saw her married to a better man
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than a boy with farmer's hands
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I said, "I hate your father,
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it's so hard not to strike him"
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She said, "You know I love you be
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cause you're so much like him"
Verse 4
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And so I'd go sneaking in the evening
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And there she'd stand a-crying in
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in the dawn as I was leaving
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Verse 5
The mayor of Candor lied
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When he offered me his only daughter
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The mayor of Candor tried
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To take her off across the water
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What a thing to do to a young man in love
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And what a thing to do to
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Verse 6
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One day with father on his
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tractor and mother off again
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I go to find the mayor to
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But he is not at his office,
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When I find him in the countryside,
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he is not alone
Verse 7
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He's holding a woman and ima
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As she jumps back from his arms
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I look into my mother's eyes
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The mayor of Candor lied
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Verse 8
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All my thoughts of outrage,
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embarrassment and pain
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Were washed away by what then
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went roaring through my brain
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How the mayor's at my mer cy
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and I hear my own voice say
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"Your run for re-election, sir,
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sir, is one month away"
Verse 9
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"And the world will never know
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of what I've seen here, sir
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But I'll be with your daughter,
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is my meaning clear, sir?"
Verse 10
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The mayor of Candor lied
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When he offered me his only daughter
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The mayor of Candor tried
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To take her off across the water
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What a thing to do to a young
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And what a thing to do to
Verse 11
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My mother looks in horror at this
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But the mayor's rueful smile said,
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"This piper must be paid"
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I had a month of joy in heaven from
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this deal I'd made in hell
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What was to happen then, my friend,
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a prophet could not tell
Interlude 1
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Verse 12
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The day after his re-election and
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and the victory celebration
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The mayor takes his family on a month-long
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foreign foreign va ca tion
Oh Coleen, you know how
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There is no one I'd ever place above you
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Oh Coleen, you don't even know me
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To have you, there's nothing that's
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below me
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(But time,
Verse 13
but time)
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But time always passes, after all
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And as the summer follows spring,
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so does the winter follow fall
Interlude 2
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Verse 14
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The day that they return,
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I stand waiting in the road
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I watch the car drive up,
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I watch the passengers unload
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Of course, she isn't there,
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of course, I should have known
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The mayor says that she has stayed,
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the decision is her own
He says, "She's finishing her schooling
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on that unseen foreign shore
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And I'll tell you very frankly, boy,
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you'll not see her anymore"
Verse 15
mayor of Candor lied
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When he offered me his only daughter
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The mayor of Candor tried
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To take her off across the water
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What a thing to do to a young
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And what a thing to do to your
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daughter
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Verse 16
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I spit out my hatred
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and my fury at his lies
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When he says, "You tried to blackmail me,
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you're just as bad as I
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Go on and do your damndest, boy,
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throw your mother to the streets
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You know it's been too many years
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I had to be discreet"
And as he stands there saying
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It hits me like a thunderbolt ex
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Verse 17
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As I look into his leering, aged,
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wrinkled mirror of my own face
He laughs and sneers and says,
"Of course, dear son
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Where do you think you came
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from in the first place?
Verse 18
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The mayor of Candor lied
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When he offered me his only daughter
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The may or of Candor tried
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To take her off across the water
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What a thing to do to a young man in love
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And what a thing to do to your
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daughter
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