
Date of issue: 31.12.2011
Song language: English
The Boxer |
I am just a poor boy |
Though my story’s seldom told |
I have squandered my resistance |
For a pocket full 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 whores on Seventh Avenue |
I do declare |
There were times when I was so lonesome |
I took some comfort there |
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 ev’ry glove that layed 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 |
Lie la lie … |
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Woman | 2018 |
Little Lion Man | 2009 |
Wilder Mind | 2015 |
The Sounds of Silence | 2018 |
St. Judy's Comet | 1973 |
Broken Crown | 2011 |
Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem | 2009 |
Snake Eyes | 2015 |
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard | 2011 |
I Will Wait | 2011 |
El Condor Pasa ft. Aldo Menti, Jorge Milchberg, Daniel Alomias Robles | 1999 |
Hopeless Wanderer | 2011 |
Si Tu Veux ft. Baaba Maal, The Very Best | 2016 |
I Gave You All | 2009 |
Ditmas | 2015 |
Thistle & Weeds | 2009 |
Scarborough Fair / Canticle | 2018 |
Learn Me Right ft. Mumford & Sons | 2013 |
Believe | 2015 |
The Cave | 2009 |
Artist lyrics: Jerry Douglas
Artist lyrics: Mumford & Sons
Artist lyrics: Paul Simon