He searches for him at his home and office with no success, only to discover the mayor out in the countryside having an affair with the narrator's mother.
One month later, the mayor is re-elected, and to celebrate, he decides to take his family (including Coleen) on a "month-long foreign vacation."
The mayor states that Coleen decided to stay to finish her schooling and tells the narrator that he will no longer be seeing his daughter.
In an ironic twist, the mayor also reveals his long-kept secret—in that he is, in fact, the narrator's biological father ("Of course, dear son, where do you think you came from in the first place?")
The first two times the chorus is heard, it foreshadows the song's ending with the revelation that the mayor's daughter may be traveling overseas: