Got your pride and your prose
Tucked just like a tommy gun
Somewhere in the smoke

Just in case you need it

I know you got your pride and your prose

Tucked like a tommy gun
Somewhere in the smoke
Just in case you need it

I've heard it's been a ride
Rougher than the last one
Once you used to say

'Oh the harder they come'

But he just swears

He's prayin' for a good time
He he said
He just doesn't miss her

But I have heard
You never really lose it do ya? Do ya?


CHORUS:
He took it all gracefully on the chin
Knowing that the beatings had to someday end

He found the bandages inside the pen
And the stitches on the radio
But there was something heavy holding you down

And there were whispers that were driving you crazy
So you haunt the heart of this town
Remember when I knew a boxer baby?


And your tattooed knuckles
Oh how they grind down

Tried to be a man
Tough just like your father
Try to settle down

More like c-calm down
Remember them songs
And the reasons we were singing for


But he said he just doesn't miss her
And he he said it's somewhere in his framework

And I have heard you never really lose it do ya? Do ya?

He took it all gracefully on the chin

Knowing that the beatings had to someday end
He found the bandages inside the pen
And the stitches on the radio

But there was something heavy holding you down
And there were reasons that were driving you crazy
So you haunt the heart of this town

Remember when I knew a boxer baby?

And you can wait all night long

Until it all goes wrong
And you waste away your soul
And you can wait wait wait wait


You took it all gracefully on the chin
Knowing that the beatings had to someday end

You found the bandages inside the pen
And the stitches on the radio
But there was something heavy holding you down

And there were whispers that were driving you crazy
Until you haunt the heart of this town
Remember when I knew a boxer baby?


Remember when I knew a boxer baby?