The Boxer-Paul Simon

[ti:The Boxer(Live Version)] [ar:Simon & Garfunkel] [al:Old Friends Live On Stage] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Boxer - Paul Simon (保罗·西蒙) [00:27.98]I am just a poor boy [00:29.78]Though my story's seldom told [00:32.17] [00:33.72]I have squandered my resistance [00:35.95] [00:36.65]For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises [00:40.58] [00:42.64]All lies and jests [00:44.72]Still a man hears what he wants to hear [00:47.92]And disregards the rest [00:50.21] [00:59.83]When I left my home and my family [01:02.65]I was no more than a boy [01:05.85]In the company of strangers [01:07.88]In the quiet of the railway station running scared [01:12.66] [01:14.43]Laying low seeking out the poorer quarters [01:18.71]Where the ragged people go [01:20.94] [01:21.49]Looking for the places only they would know [01:25.03] [01:26.68]Lie la lie [01:28.65] [01:43.86]Asking only workman's wages [01:45.66] [01:46.34]I come looking for a job [01:48.51]But I get no offers [01:50.74] [01:51.99]Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue [01:55.04] [01:58.40]I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome [02:02.95]I took some comfort there [02:05.40] [02:43.49]Lie la lie [02:44.85] [03:11.95]Then I'm laying out my winter clothes [03:14.81]And wishing I was gone [03:17.11] [03:17.73]Going home [03:18.80] [03:20.52]Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me [03:24.89] [03:27.21]Bleeding me going home [03:33.25] [03:41.58]In the clearing stands a boxer [03:44.22]And a fighter by his trade [03:46.95]And he carries the reminders [03:49.41] [03:50.24]Of ev'ry glove that layed him down [03:53.13]Or cut him till he cried out [03:55.62]In his anger and his shame [03:58.38]"I am leaving I am leaving" [04:00.95] [04:01.62]But the fighter still remains still remians [04:06.62] [04:09.74]Lie la lie