Album Name

The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel

Artist

Simon & Garfunkel

Genre

포크

Release Date

1999.12.01

Release Agency

Columbia/Legancy

I am just a poor boy
Though my story is 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
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 Seventh Avenue
I do declare there were times
when I was so lonesome
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
Leading me going 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 till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
I am leaving I am leaving
But the fighter still remains