The Boxer (2002 Remaster) (LP版)

The Boxer (LP版) - Emmylou Harris (愛美蘿·哈里斯)

I am just a poor boy

Though my story's seldom told

I have squandered my resistance

On 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 family

I was no more than a boy

In the company of strangers

In the quiet of a 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 and lie

Lie and lie lie la lie lied

Lie and lie

Lie la lie lied lie la lie lied

Lie la lied

Only sleeping 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

In a laying out my winter clothes

And wishing I was don't go

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 remainders

Of every glove that laid him down

And cut him till he cried out

In his anger and his shame

I am leaving I am leaving

But the fighter still remains

Lie and lie

Lie la lie lie la lie lie lie la lie

Lie la lie lie la lie lie la lie