Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer
2009
1968/1969
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 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 7th avenue
i do declare
there were times when i was so lonesome
that i took some comfort there
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
bleeding me, going home
in the clearing stands a boxer
and a fighter by his trade
and he carries the reminders
of ev’ry glove that layed 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
art garfunkel are radacini la iasi, de unde au emigrat bunicii paterni
major in arhitectura
BA in istoria artei, un master in matematici si studii pre-doctorale pentru un phd in maths
la o universitate importanta
acestea toate in perioada in care facea discurile icon cu paul simon
tenis, ski, scrima si bowling
a strabatut america pe jos de la un ocean la celalalt
Citiţi şi
