the boxer

• simon & garfunkel ekurisinin 68 tarihli cici parcalarindan biri. sozleri az cok boyle bi$eylerdi
  
  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 jest
  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,
  lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie lie-la-lie,
  lie-la-lie la la la la, lie la la la 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.
  
  ooo-la-la la-la la-la
  
  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 - e,
  going home.
  
  in the clearing stands a boxer,
  and a fighter by his trade
  and he carries the reminders
  of ev'ry 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
  lie-la-lie,