Paul Simon - The Boxer Lyrics

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I am just a poor boy though my story is 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.

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Lie-la-lie ...

Asking only workman's 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.

La la la la la la la.

(Instrumental break)

Li la li ...

And I'm laying out my winter clothes and

Wishing I was gone goin' home

Where the new york city winters aren't

Bleedin' me leadin' me 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."

Though the fighter still remains.

Lie-la-lie ...

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