Lyrics The Boxer - Paul Simon
I
am
just
a
poor
boy
though
my
story's
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,
hmmm
When
I
left
my
home
and
my
family,
I's
no
more
than
a
boy
In
the
company
of
strangers
In
the
quiet
of
the
railway
station,
runnin'
scared,
laying
low
Seeking
out
the
poorer
quarters,
where
the
ragged
people
go
Looking
for
the
places
only
they
would
know.
Li
la
li
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la
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la
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la
li
Asking
only
workman's
wages,
I
come
lookin'
for
a
job
But
I
get
no
offers
Just
a
come-on
from
the
whores
on
7th
Avenue
I
do
declare,
there
were
times
when
I
was
so
lonesome
I
took
some
comfort
there
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La,
la,
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Instrumental
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,
but
the
fighter
still
remains
Still
remains
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1 American Tune (Unfinished Demo)
2 Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
3 One-Trick Pony
4 Patterns
5 Proof
6 Quiet
7 That's Me
8 That's Where I Belong (Live)
9 Trailways Bus
10 Virgil
11 Dazzling Blue
12 Rewrite
13 Love and Hard Times
14 Thelma (outtake)
15 Old (Live)
16 The Story of "Graceland"
17 Have a Good Time
18 Everything About It Is a Love Song
19 Hurricane Eye (Live)
20 I Am a Rock
21 I Do It for Your Love
22 Look at That
23 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (demo)
24 Outrageous
25 Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
26 Quality
27 Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War (original acoustic demo)
28 Silent Eyes
29 Stranded In a Limousine
30 The Late Great Johnny Ace (original acoustic demo)
31 The Side of a Hill
32 The Teacher
33 You're the One
34 All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints - Early Version
35 All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints
36 Another Galaxy
37 Beautiful
38 Amulet
39 The Afterlife
40 Leaves That Are Green
41 Killer Wants to Go to College II
42 Killer Wants to Go to College
43 Jonah
44 Cecilia
45 Born At the Right Time
46 Bernadette
47 A Church Is Burning
48 Bridge Over Troubled Water
49 The Boxer
50 Learn How to Fall
51 Let Me Live in Your City (work-in-progress)
52 Take Me to the Mardi Gras (acoustic demo)
53 That's Why God Made Movies
54 Ace In the Hole
55 A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
56 Love & Blessings
57 Shoplifting Clothes (unreleased)
58 Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Version)
59 That Was Your Mother
60 Crazy Love, Volume II
61 Train in the Distance (original acoustic demo)
62 Spirit Voices (Work-In-Progress)
63 The Coast (Work-In-Progress)
64 Born at the Right Time (original acoustic demo)
65 Can I Forgive Him (original demo)
66 Darling Lorraine
67 A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)
68 Allergies
69 Hearts and Bones
70 Song About the Moon
71 Think Too Much (b)
72 Time Is an Ocean
73 Satin Summer Nights
74 Spiral Highway
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