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Paul Simon - The Boxer Lyrics

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  • I am just a poor boy, though my storys seldom told.
  • I have squandered my resistance,
  • For a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.
  • All lies and jest.
  • Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
  • When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy,
  • In the company of strangers,
  • In the quiet of a railway station, runnin scared.
  • Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters,
  • Where the ragged people go.
  • Lookin for the places, only they would know.
  • Lie-la-lie ...
  • Asking only workmans wages I come lookin for a job,
  • But I get no offers,
  • Just a come-on from the whores on seventh avenue.
  • I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome,
  • I took some comfort there.
  • Oooh la, la, la ...
  • And the years are rollin by me.
  • They are rockin evenly.
  • I am older than I once was, and younger than Ill be.
  • Thats not unusual.
  • It isnt strange,
  • After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
  • After changes, we are more or less the same.
  • Lie-la-lie ...
  • Then Im laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,
  • Going home, where the new york city winters arent bleedin me.
  • Leadin me, to goin home.
  • In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade,
  • And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down,
  • Or cut him til he cried out in his anger and his shame,
  • I am leaving, I am leaving.
  • But the fighter still remains.
  • Lie-la-lie ...

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