《The Mayor of Candor Lied(LP版)》歌词

歌曲： The Mayor of Candor Lied(LP版)

所属专辑：On the Road to Kingdom Come

歌手： HARRY CHAPIN

时长： 08:28

播放 下载lrc歌词 下载纯文本歌词

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.[00:08:28]