Paul Simon - The Boxer (Tower Theater, 2006)
Tower Theater, Philadelphia
Oct 24, 2006
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 family I was no more than a boy,
In the company of strangers,
In the quiet of a railway station, runnin scared.
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters,
Where the ragged people go.
Lookin for the places, only they would know.
Lie-la-lie ...
Asking only workmans wages I come lookin 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.
Oooh la, la, la ...
And the years are rollin by me.
They are rockin evenly.
I am older than I once was, and younger than Ill be.
Thats not unusual.
No, it isn't strange,
After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
After changes, we are more or less the same.
Lie-la-lie ...
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,
Going home, where the new york city winters arent bleedin me.
Leadin me, to goin home.
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade,
And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down,
Or cut him til he cried out in his anger and his shame,
I am leaving, I am leaving.
But the fighter still remains.
Lie-la-lie ...
설명이 필요없는 곡일 듯... 이 공연에서 마지막을 불렀습니다. 전성기때의 라이브에 비할수는 없겠지만, 청중들이 Lie-La-Lie 따라할 땐 가슴이 뭉클하는 군요. 여기서 그렇지 않으시다면 폴 사이먼의 (광)팬 아님. :-) 휴~ 빨랑 공연을 봐야 하는건데.. 맨날 녹음된 것만 듣고 있네요. 즐감 하시길~~