<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=93603" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Boxer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am just a poor boy, though my storys seldom told.<br>I have squandered my resistance,<br>For a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.<br>All lies and jest.<br>Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.<br>When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy,<br>In the company of strangers,<br>In the quiet of a railway station, runnin scared.<br>Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters,<br>Where the ragged people go.<br>Lookin for the places, only they would know.<br>Lie-la-lie ...<br>Asking only workmans wages I come lookin for a job,<br>But I get no offers,<br>Just a come-on from the whores on seventh avenue.<br>I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome,<br>I took some comfort there.<br>Oooh la, la, la ...<br>And the years are rollin by me.<br>They are rockin evenly.<br>I am older than I once was, and younger than Ill be.<br>Thats not unusual.<br>It isnt strange,<br>After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.<br>After changes, we are more or less the same.<br>Lie-la-lie ...<br>Then Im laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,<br>Going home, where the new york city winters arent bleedin me.<br>Leadin me, to goin home.<br>In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade,<br>And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down,<br>Or cut him til he cried out in his anger and his shame,<br>I am leaving, I am leaving.<br>But the fighter still remains.<br>Lie-la-lie ...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />song performed by by Paul Simon - <i><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/" target=_blank></a></i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=93603" data-title="The Boxer" data-description="I am just a poor boy, though my storys seldom told. I have squandered my resistance, For a pocketful 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 fami..."></div> </div> </div>

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