XTC - The Mayor Of Simpleton lyrics

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Never been near a university,<br>Never took a paper or a learned degree,<br>And some of your friends think that's stupid of me,<br>But it's nothing that I care about.<br><br>Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun,<br>And of mathematics well I want none,<br>And I may be the mayor of simpleton,<br>But I know one thing,<br>And that's I love you.<br>When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done,<br>You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor of simpleton.<br><br>I can't have been there when brains were handed round<br>(please be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton),<br>Or get past the cover of your books profound,<br>(please be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton),<br>And some of your friends thinks it's really unsound,<br>That you're ever seen talking to me.<br><br>Well I don't know how to write a big hit song,<br>And all crossword puzzles well I just shun,<br>And I may be the mayor of simpleton,<br>But I know one thing,<br>And that's I love you.<br><br>I'm not proud of the fact that I never learned much,<br>Just feel I should say,<br>What you get is all real,<br>I can't put on an act,<br>It takes brains to do that anyway. (and anyway...)<br><br>And I can't unravel riddles, problems and puns,<br>How the home computer has me on the run,<br>And I may be the mayor of simpleton,<br>But I know one thing,<br>And that's I love you (I love you).<br><br>If depth of feeling is a currency,<br>(please be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton),<br>Then I'm the man who grew the money tree,<br>(no chain of office and no hope of getting one).<br>Some of your friends are too brainy to see,<br>That they're paupers and that's how they'll stay.<br><br>Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton,<br>Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won,<br>And I may be the mayor of simpleton,<br>But I know one thing,<br>And that's I love you.<br><br>When all logic grows cold and all thinking gets done,<br>You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor of simpleton.<br>You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor of simpleton.<br>You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor.<br>(please be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton.)