The Boxer-Paula Fernandes

[ti:The Boxer] [ar:Paula Fernandes] [al:Dust In the Wind] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Boxer - Paula Fernandes (保拉·费尔南德斯) [00:06.00]I am just a poor boy [00:08.14]Though my story's seldom told [00:10.50]I have squandered my resistance [00:13.23]For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises [00:17.23] [00:19.98]All lies and jests [00:21.64]Still a man hears what he wants to hear [00:24.91]And disregards the rest [00:26.77] [00:36.86]When I left my home and my family [00:39.68]I was no more than a boy [00:42.25]In the company of strangers [00:45.20]In the quiet of the railway station running scared [00:49.48] [00:51.69]Laying low seeking out the poorer quarters [00:55.91]Where the ragged people go [00:58.37]Looking for the places only they would know [01:02.33] [01:03.84]Lie la lie [01:18.28] [01:20.27]Asking only workman's wages [01:23.11]I come looking for a job [01:25.62]But I get no offers [01:27.36] [01:28.66]Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue [01:32.80] [01:34.76]I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome [01:40.03]I took some comfort there [01:41.81]Lie la lie [01:51.15] [02:31.41]Then I'm laying out my winter clothes [02:34.19]And wishing I was gone [02:36.64]Going home [02:38.01] [02:39.81]Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me [02:43.71] [02:46.00]Bleeding me going home [02:51.83] [02:58.59]In the clearing stands a boxer [03:00.79] [03:01.32]And a fighter by his trade [03:03.87]And he carries the reminders [03:06.42] [03:07.14]Of ev'ry glove that layed him down [03:09.89]Or cut him till he cried out [03:12.40]In his anger and his shame [03:14.64]"I am leaving I am leaving" [03:17.73]But the fighter still remains [03:19.99] [03:25.60]Lie la lie