The Boxer

Simon & Garfunkel

1. I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
   I have squandered my resistance
   for a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
   all lies and jests
   still a man hears what he wants to hear
   and disregards the rest.

   in the company of strangers
   in the quiet of the railway station running scared
   laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
   where the ragged people go
   looking for the places only they would know.
R: Lie la lie ...

3. Asking only workman's wages I come looking 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 oo-la-la ...
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4. Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone
   where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
   leading me,  going home.

5. In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
   and he carries the reminders
   of ev'ry glove that laid him down
   or cut him till he cried out
   in his anger and his shame
   "I am leaving, I am leaving"
   but the fighter still remains.
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