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The Mayor Of Simpleton Lyrics
Never been near a university, never took a paper or a learned
degree, and some of your friends think that's stupid of me, but it's
nothing that I care about.
Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun, and of
mathematics well I want none, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but
I know one things and that's I love you. When their logic grows cold
and all thinking gets done, you'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of
Simpleton.
I can't have been there when brains were handed round (please be
upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton), or get past the cover of your
books profound (please be upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton), and
some of your friends thinks it's really unsound that you're ever seen
talking to me.
Well I don't know how to write a big hit song, and all crossword
puzzles well I just shun, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but I
know one thing and that's I love you.
I'm not proud of the fact that I never learned much, just feel I
should say, what you get is all real, I can't put on an act, it takes
brains to do that anyway. (And anyway...)
And I can't unravel riddles problems and puns, how the home computer
has me on the run, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but I know one
thing and that's I love you (I love you).
If depth of feeling is a currency (please be upstanding for the
Mayor of Simpleton), then I'm the man who grew the money tree (no
chain of office and no hope of getting one), some of your friends are
too brainy to see that they're paupers and that's how they'll stay.
Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton of all the Nobel
prizes that I've never won, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but I
know one things and that's I love you. When all logic grows cold and
all thinking gets done, you'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of
Simpleton. You'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton.
You'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor. (Please be upstanding for
the Mayor of Simpleton.)
degree, and some of your friends think that's stupid of me, but it's
nothing that I care about.
Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun, and of
mathematics well I want none, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but
I know one things and that's I love you. When their logic grows cold
and all thinking gets done, you'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of
Simpleton.
I can't have been there when brains were handed round (please be
upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton), or get past the cover of your
books profound (please be upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton), and
some of your friends thinks it's really unsound that you're ever seen
talking to me.
Well I don't know how to write a big hit song, and all crossword
puzzles well I just shun, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but I
know one thing and that's I love you.
I'm not proud of the fact that I never learned much, just feel I
should say, what you get is all real, I can't put on an act, it takes
brains to do that anyway. (And anyway...)
And I can't unravel riddles problems and puns, how the home computer
has me on the run, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but I know one
thing and that's I love you (I love you).
If depth of feeling is a currency (please be upstanding for the
Mayor of Simpleton), then I'm the man who grew the money tree (no
chain of office and no hope of getting one), some of your friends are
too brainy to see that they're paupers and that's how they'll stay.
Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton of all the Nobel
prizes that I've never won, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but I
know one things and that's I love you. When all logic grows cold and
all thinking gets done, you'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of
Simpleton. You'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton.
You'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor. (Please be upstanding for
the Mayor of Simpleton.)
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Man, this is such a good pop song. Why has no one commented on it?? "when their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done, you'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton." It's genius I tells ya. As for meaning, well it seems pretty self-explanatory.
This comes across as a reply to the question "Don't you know she's too good for you?"
It's really an interesting take on a love song, since he's pretty much saying in a very roundabout way that he doesn't need to know much else besides his love for her. The fact that Partridge does this with a sarcastic and witty way I believe is his way of saying that even if he's just a ditchdigger, that doesn't mean that he can't love.
Yes, feeling/emotions is what many consider to be what makes us 'human'. He's advocating this as the most important aspect of humanity (of which the speaker has lots of - especially for this particular girl).
THIS SONG IS AWESOME! I think it is is about a stupid guy who loves some girl. well duh. that's all that's important anyway.
It doesn't take a high class or a high degree to be able to feel and love with all your heart, which is what matters.
Mayor of Simpleton was on the Oranges and Lemons album. This was the album after XTC's biggest seller to date Skylarking. "XTC, 'Skylarking' - 100 Best Albums of the Eighties | Rolling ... www.rollingstone.com/...best-albums.../xtc-skylarking-201... Rolling Stone.
Skylarking, as it turned out, was the album that broke XTC to a larger audience in .... It was the second best-selling album of 1985 in the UK.
Skylarking was produced by Todd Rundgren, a much touted "genius". Todd and Andy had epic clashes during the recording of this album. Todd was very cold to the band (esp Andy) because he was under order to get the album done quickly without the antics that Andy was famous for wearning down producers to get his way. Colin Molding actually left the band during these session for a short time.
I think that Mayor of Simpleton is a poke from Andy to Todd saying, you may be a technical and musical wizard, but that does not count for much when it comes down to true human emotions.
Echoes the great Sam Cooke song "Wonderful World," but with a brilliant patina of irony, since the lyrics of "Mayor of Simpleton" could only have been written by an extraordinarily clever lyricist. Truly one of the best pop songs of the 1980s.