[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 -- 404

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