Lyrics Mayor of Simpleton (early work tape) - XTC
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.)
1 Fireball XL5/Fireball Dub ('White Music' Out-Take)
2 Spinning Top (live)
3 Traffic Light Rock (live)
4 Radios in Motion (White Music version)
5 Heatwave MKII Deluxe ('White Music' Out-Take)
6 This Is Pop? (single version)
7 Are You Receiving Me? (Go 2 outtake)
8 Things Fall To Bits ('Go 2' Out-Take)
9 Us Being Us ('Go 2' Out-Take)
10 Life Begins at the Hop (first recording, unused)
11 Making Plans for Nigel (demo from Swindon Town Hall)
12 Ten Feet Tall (Drums and Wires version)
13 Wanking Man
14 Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!) (live)
15 Atom Medley: Into the Atom Age / Hang On to the Night / Neon Shuffle (live)
16 Life Begins at the Hop (unused U.S. single recording)
17 Real by Reel (unused single recording)
18 When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty (unused single recording)
19 Helicopter (unused single recording)
20 No Language in Our Lungs (Black Sea version)
21 Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) (Black Sea version)
22 Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins) (live)
23 Crowded Room (live)
24 Senses Working Overtime (Early Work Tape)
25 Snowman (live)
26 Ball and Chain (unused single recording)
27 Shaving Brush Boogie
28 Fly on the Wall (English Settlement version)
29 Yacht Dance (live)
30 Jason and the Argonauts (English Settlement version)
31 Ladybird (Mummer version)
32 The Everyday Story of Smalltown (Big Express version)
33 Let’s Make a Den (home demo)
34 Brainiac’s Daughter (Psonic Psunspot version)
35 Vanishing Girl (Psonic Psunspot version)
36 Terrorism (home demo)
37 Find the Fox (home demo)
38 Season Cycle (Skylarking version)
39 The Troubles (home demo)
40 Mayor of Simpleton (early work tape)
41 Chalkhills and Children (Oranges & Lemons version)
42 The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (early home demo)
43 Omnibus (Nonsuch version)
44 Bungalow (Nonsuch version)
45 Didn't Hurt a Bit ('Nonsuch' Out-Take)
46 Books Are Burning (live)
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