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
Li
la
li
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la
li
Li
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,
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
Li
la
li
Li
la
li
Li
la
li
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la
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1 American Tune (Unfinished Demo)
2 A Church Is Burning
3 Jonah
4 Killer Wants to Go to College II
5 Leaves That Are Green
6 Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
7 One-Trick Pony
8 Patterns
9 Proof
10 Quiet
11 That's Me
12 That's Where I Belong (Live)
13 Trailways Bus
14 Virgil
15 Dazzling Blue
16 Rewrite
17 The Afterlife
18 Amulet
19 Love and Hard Times
20 Thelma (outtake)
21 Old (Live)
22 The Story of "Graceland"
23 Beautiful
24 Another Galaxy
25 All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints
26 All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints - Early Version
27 You're the One
28 The Teacher
29 Killer Wants to Go to College
30 Cecilia
31 Born At the Right Time
32 Bernadette
33 Bridge Over Troubled Water
34 The Boxer
35 Learn How to Fall
36 Let Me Live in Your City (work-in-progress)
37 Take Me to the Mardi Gras (acoustic demo)
38 That's Why God Made Movies
39 The Side of a Hill
40 The Late Great Johnny Ace (original acoustic demo)
41 Stranded In a Limousine
42 Silent Eyes
43 Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War (original acoustic demo)
44 Quality
45 Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
46 Outrageous
47 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (demo)
48 Look at That
49 I Do It for Your Love
50 I Am a Rock
51 Have a Good Time
52 Everything About It Is a Love Song
53 Darling Lorraine
54 Can I Forgive Him (original demo)
55 Hurricane Eye (Live)
56 Ace In the Hole
57 A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
58 Love & Blessings
59 Shoplifting Clothes (unreleased)
60 Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Version)
61 That Was Your Mother
62 Crazy Love, Volume II
63 Train in the Distance (original acoustic demo)
64 Spirit Voices (Work-In-Progress)
65 The Coast (Work-In-Progress)
66 Born at the Right Time (original acoustic demo)
67 Satin Summer Nights
68 Time Is an Ocean
69 A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)
70 Allergies
71 Hearts and Bones
72 Song About the Moon
73 Think Too Much (b)
74 Spiral Highway
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