Tytuł: The Boxer

• Wykonawca: Me First & The Gimme Gimmes
• Wyświetleń: 192

[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 jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear
  And disregards the rest
  
  When I left my home and 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
  
  La la li
  La la la la li la li
  La la li
  La la la la la la li la la la li
  
  Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job
  But I get no offers
  Just a come-on from some bitch
  On Seventh Avenue
  
  I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome
  I took some comfort there, la la la la la la
  
  [repeat chorus]
  
  And 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
  
  'til he cried out in his anger and his shame
  I am leaving, I am leaving
  But the fighter still remains
  La la la la la la la la la li
  
  [repeat chorus twice]
  
  Yeay! Yeay! Yeay! Ow!
  
  Thanks to Nicky Lamkin (Musikgirl14@hotmail.com) for these lyrics