☆The Boxer☆
◇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
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
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
Billboard Top 100 - 1970
2014-0324
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