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Lee DeWyze - The Boxer lyrics

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The Boxer (Simon & Garfunkel) by Lee DeWyze, Music Lyrics and Video

The Boxer was performed by Lee DeWyze on the show for Idol Gives Back week, aka inspirational songs, and also on the Finale. The original song "The Boxer" is a folk rock ballad written by Paul Simon in 1968 and first recorded by Simon & Garfunkel. In the studio version of the song, Dewyze also included the missing verse, which was not present in the Bridge Over Troubled Water version.

You can listen here to Lee DeWyze performing "The Boxer" on American Idol Season 9 Finale.

Lee DeWyze - The Boxer Lyrics

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

Lie la lie ...

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

Lie la lie ...

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 ...
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