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LEE DEWYZE lyrics : "The Boxer"

(originally by Simon & Garfunkel)




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 jests
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 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


Lie la lie...


Asking only workman's wages
I come looking for a job
But I get no offers

Just a come-on from the !@^%s on Seventh Avenue
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there


Now the years are rolling by me, they are rockin' evenly
I am older than I once was

And younger than I'll be that's not unusual.
No it isn't strange after changes upon changes we are more or less the same
After changes we are more or less the same


Lie la lie...


Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home

Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me,
Leading me, going 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 till he cried out
In his anger and his shame

"I am leaving, I am leaving"
But the fighter still remains
I am leaving

But the fighter still remains

Lie la lie...

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