The Boxer

The Boxer Lyrics

Song The Boxer
Artist Simon
Album The Essential Simon & Garfunkel
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[00:00.96] Artist : Simon and Garfunkel
[00:02.65] Album : The Best of Simon & Garfunkel
[00:04.32] Title :The Boxer
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[00:06.21] I am just a poor boy
[00:08.32] though my story's seldom told.
[00:11.09] I have squandered my resistance
[00:14.01] for a pocketful of mumbles,
[00:16.13] such are promises.
[00:20.18] All lies and jest.
[00:21.60] Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
[00:24.59] and disregards the rest.
[00:26.87] Mmm.......
[00:30.20] Mmm.......
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[00:36.32] When I left my home
[00:37.61] and my family.
[00:38.98] I was no more than a boy.
[00:41.33] In the company of strangers,
[00:44.22] in the quiet of the railway station
[00:47.07] running scared.
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[00:50.58] Laying low,
[00:51.80] seeking out the poorer quarters
[00:54.33] where the ragged people go.
[00:57.08] Looking for the places
[00:58.98] only they would know.
[01:10.06][01:02.25] Lie-la-lie.....
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[01:18.18] Asking only workman's wages,
[01:20.59] I come looking for a job
[01:22.80] but I get no offers.
[01:26.01] Just a come-on from the whores
[01:28.18] on Seventh Avenue.
[01:32.16] I do declare,
[01:33.45] there were times
[01:34.66] when I was so lonesome
[01:36.62] I took some comfort there.
[01:38.85] Lie-la-lie.....
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[02:11.12] Lie-la-lie.....
[02:19.15] Lie-la-lie.....
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[02:26.98] Then I'm laying out
[02:28.18] my winter clothes
[02:29.62] and wishing I was gone.
[02:31.70] Going home,
[02:34.70] where the New York City winters
[02:36.88] aren't bleeding me.
[02:40.57] Leading me
[02:44.50] going home.
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[02:53.69] In the clearing stands a boxer,
[02:56.02] and a fighter by his trade.
[02:58.79] And he carries the reminders
[03:01.89] of ev'ry glove that laid him down
[03:04.08] or cut him till he cried out.
[03:06.83] In his anger and his shame,
[03:08.88] "I am leaving, I am leaving."
[03:11.76] But the fighter still remains.
[03:14.12] Mmm............
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[04:02.61][03:19.10] Lie-la-lie..............Lie-la-lie
[04:12.52][03:32.33] Lie-la-lie..............Lie-la-lie
[04:22.82][03:42.57] Lie-la-lie..............Lie-la-lie
[04:32.75][03:52.52] Lie-la-lie..............Lie-la-lie
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