The Boxer (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - December 2003)-Simon & Garfunkel

[ti:The Boxer(Live Version)] [ar:Simon & Garfunkel] [al:Old Friends Live On Stage] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Boxer (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - December 2003) - Simon & Garfunkel [00:27.97]I am just a poor boy [00:29.76]Though my story's seldom told [00:32.15] [00:33.70]I have squandered my resistance [00:35.93] [00:36.63]For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises [00:40.56] [00:42.62]All lies and jests [00:44.70]Still a man hears what he wants to hear [00:47.91]And disregards the rest [00:50.20] [00:59.82]When I left my home and my family [01:02.64]I was no more than a boy [01:05.84]In the company of strangers [01:07.87]In the quiet of the railway station running scared [01:12.65] [01:14.42]Laying low seeking out the poorer quarters [01:18.70]Where the ragged people go [01:20.93] [01:21.48]Looking for the places only they would know [01:25.02] [01:26.67]Lie la lie [01:28.63] [01:43.84]Asking only workman's wages [01:45.64] [01:46.32]I come looking for a job [01:48.49]But I get no offers [01:50.72] [01:51.97]Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue [01:55.02] [01:58.38]I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome [02:02.93]I took some comfort there [02:05.39] [02:43.48]Lie la lie [02:44.84] [03:11.94]Then I'm laying out my winter clothes [03:14.80]And wishing I was gone [03:17.10] [03:17.72]Going home [03:18.79] [03:20.51]Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me [03:24.88] [03:27.20]Bleeding me going home [03:33.24] [03:41.57]In the clearing stands a boxer [03:44.21]And a fighter by his trade [03:46.94]And he carries the reminders [03:49.40] [03:50.23]Of ev'ry glove that layed him down [03:53.12]Or cut him till he cried out [03:55.61]In his anger and his shame [03:58.37]"I am leaving I am leaving" [04:00.94] [04:01.61]But the fighter still remains still remians [04:06.61] [04:09.73]Lie la lie