The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel (Boyce Avenue acoustic cover) on Spotify & Apple.

Emotive Echoes
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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 eyes and chest, still the 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 poor quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know
Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie
Asking only workman's wages
I come looking for a job, but I get no offers
Just to come on from the whores on 7th Avenue
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there
Then I'm laying out to close
And wishing I was gone, going home
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
Bleeding me
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter
By his trade, and he carries the reminder
Of every glove that laid him down
And I'll cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
I am leaving, I am leaving
But the fighter still remains
Lie, lie
