Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (Audio)
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- Опубліковано 15 кві 2013
- “The Boxer” by Simon & Garfunkel
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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, lie la la la lie lie
Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie la la lie
#SimonAndGarfunkel #TheBoxer #FolkRock
i am old. I am at the end of my life now..Wow, what a ride. This song just reminds me of how much time has passed and how quickly it goes. If you are young, Im not preaching and your life is yours to live as you choose, but trust me--The days are long but the years are short.
His words made me cry.
I feel that. I have blinked and am nearly 40. The time does go by so fast.
God bless You in Jesus mighty name.
@@novocanal7153😢
I Hope you had the time of your live and that there will be lots if years of Joy for you ❤
Well put. How old are you if I may ask? I hope you're not suffering from anything serious. My Grandfather is 95, and he recently was told he has a good year left in him. He has lived a great life. A wife of 75 years, 6 grandkids, 1 great grandson, and he has been to pretty much every country in the world. He's a good man, and I'm going to miss him so much when he is gone.
I just buried my father who passed away, after being diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer 16 years ago. He fought cancer 6 TIMES - and he fought so damn hard. This song gives me comfort and reminds me of his amazing strength.
See you on the other side, Dad. ❤
"I am leaving, I am leaving, but the FIGHTER still remains".
Condolences to you and your Family .
Dang he's strong, 6 TIMES!!! Sorry to hear tho
Love and resilience.
I wish you peace.
Inspiring, powerful words, catmini.
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62 years old, still gives me chills in 2023.
Yes totally true dude Aussie
When I was little I thought this was the saddest sounding song I ever heard and it still is
@@amelialindsay5678 It has elements of triumph and perseverance but I agree it's mostly sad.
It’s beautiful you just have to listen and understand who you are lol
I'm 65 and ut sounds to me as good as when it first came out.
My dad was a boxer in the 50's and 60's. He became golden gloves and spared for Rocky Marsiano. I grew up with this song , became a guitar player and insist on playing this song in the song list in every band I was ever in. Been playing this song for 40 years now.
Just fought the breast cancer battle. I'm here and grateful. I always feel like so many went through so much more. Had double mastectomy and radiation but no chemo. Song definitely picks me up and reminds me of good times
Glad you’re here, keep fightin❤️
Man, Lisa, I don't even know you and I'm so proud of you ❤🩹
Grateful you're still here with us!
As it should and it does
God is GOOd GOD BLESS YOU💜💚ALL❤️
How many will join me in listening this song in 2024?
Eu
I wil
I don't know who you are but bless u I play this song when sad and need a lift up
Listening now as good as ever
Me
"Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." Ain't that the truth 😂
absolutely the truth.
Depending on context because everytime, at the moment, which of the two participants in actuality knows "the truth." The victor only will speak of "a truth." The vanquished are quelled for a time, 'tis all.
Onward …! 🍺 + (💁🏻♀📝) = ⁉
Yup it's called confirmation bias.
You know today thinking of a friend those lyrics came into my head, i am 73
I’m 16 years old and I can’t stop listening to this I absolutely love this song!!
And there is so much more good music from that time to discover. Have fun
I was a teenager over 40 years ago when i discovered their music. It spoke to me then an still does.
I was the same at age 16. That was in 1971.
you have amazing musical taste, i am 58, the musical future is safe in your hands x
Great era of music 👍🏴
My mother used to play this album when it was nap time :) Everything thats good about me came from her. She lost her battle with cancer when she was only 49 in 2005. Everytime I play this she is right there again. Thank you Mom.
How dreadfully upsetting to lose a parent-or for that matter anyone close who has been greatly loved and treasured.The only thing is that no-one ever dies whilst there is there is someone around to love them.Bear that in mind and keep strong remembering your wonderful mother
You are good now and toll the end friend.
I am so sorry for your loss friend.
I am so sorry for your loss, Marc. It was too soon. I can tell from the way you write that she was a wonderful woman who raised a beautiful son with a good heart. May peace always be with you.
Oh, Marc. I'm 50 yrs old, and felt every word of that. I feel your pain, bro. Regards, buddy. 👍
One of America's great poets.....Paul Simon has few peers.
Richard Marshall Bowman I agree with you. i just love the construction of his words. i recently bought a book containing his lyrics and I am happy just reading the wonderful words. sheer poetry!
yes, but how could he afford the whores on 7th without a freaking job?
A great poet indeed!
I'm 73 and still love this song
Yes, absolutely. When Graceland came out, I couldn't stop listening to the lyrics. I kept playing the tape, and a friend confessed he was obsessed with it too. It was then I knew we weren't alone, and that it could possibly be considered his greatest work. But if you listen to any of his lyrics the poetry is undeniably the work of a great mind.
71 years old and still enjoy this song. Real music not like the bump bump screechy mess today.
67, sick,disabled, and lonely. Those chills are running up my spine and around my chest like a squeeze from the past
I am sorry to hear this & felt sad reading it , I hope you have faith; alone but never lonely with God in your life. 🙏🏽 May You find comfort & help in your surroundings.
@@Assefaevery convenient that your God is responsible for the good things and none of the bad things, am I right? What a deity, folks, we love him
😓
Please keep faith,
for the Kingdom of Heaven for you is at hand! God Bless you!
I hearing ya bro, i try to keep the head n mind active n song like this
That was my mum's favourite song. She passed away two days ago. Rest in peace and thank you for everything! I love you mom, will never forget you 💖
I'm sorry for your loss, she chose her favourite song well
Sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss my friend……time passes so quickly
Sorry to hear that..my mom left over 15yrs&I Hope she as at peace
Listening to this masterpiece will always remind her, and moments you shared. So sad for you
I am Moroccan from north Africa. I learnt the lyrics of this song by heart in the eighties. It is one of the best songs ever made in history. It reminds me of my youth, my innocence, my family, my old friends. It reminds me of life when it was real and original.
Brother life is stillreal and original.......it is up to you....good luck!!!!!!
me too
Beautiful
Dude it's still ORIGINAL!!!!!!
@@federicoalfaro7991 well said!
"In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of ev'ry 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"
Just one of the great lyrical passages ever.
Absolutely
By a mile...it give me chills and make me cry..I got too many related memory.
It is my life.
I think it has always been my favorite part of that song.
It's also very relatable after you leave combat sports. You can never get rid of that urge and that passion.
Simon and Garfunkel is, without a doubt, the very best music the USA has produced.
Errrrr have you never listened to Kanye?
No, me neither.
I think imagine dragons comes close tho.... after S&G a definite favourite
@aidandatari2147 I appreciate that opinion is entirely subjective, but this particular opinion is frankly ludicrous.
Imagine Dragons 😂
This song got me through homelessness. One of the most touching songs of all time. I can't hear it and not cry.
Bless you
wow. Bless you!
God bless
Homeless
having to steal and hunting small game to survive shouldnt be normal for a 5 year old in this Country
But becoming more And more
Hope things are going well for you now, brother.
In my opinion, one of the greatest songs, of any genre, ever made.
Not an opinion, that’s a hard fact.
@@Marth66666 AMEN!
Chanson éternelle 🙏🙏🙏
100/100.
You should listen to bridge over troubled waters and others....
The conclusion with all the instruments combining and the fog horn is one of the most beautiful things in music.
I agree! its one of the most beautiful endings of all..BUT..if you listen closely;at the end they dont play differently than during the song. it repeats a few times, its just when everything else fades down you hear how beautifully harmonious the guitarplay is. ...btw....if you love beautiful endings I advise '' the man is too strong '' from Dire Straits.
It's an industrial folk song before time.
You're so right. I'm guilty of going to the start of that section and listening to the buildup over and over again.
In my opinion this is pure musical genius ... both instrumental and lyrical ... A true classic that will stand the test of time
Just simply no doubt about it
We were blessed in the sixties and seventies. Our lives were set to the greatest music ever written or performed.
what a beautiful way of putting that, thanks.
Aye aye!!
Well said Jim
It's the sixties again and I'm laying out my winter clothes wishing I was home.
Damn right, Jim. Songs like this are equal to the best of Mozart and Beethoven.
My father passed away last week at age 90. He was a champion amateur boxer and loved this song. He was a boxer and even moreso, a fighter. We played it at his funeral as he is truly "going home."
Your father will always be with you. Gina in lights
WOW, That's truly beautiful! Your dad won all the rounds. (People NEED to play their loved ones favorite records at funerals!!!) He won, Got the belt 10/10 👊👊 Sounds like a champion!
Sorry for your loss. My father died when he was 48. Many years ago. Still think of him often
Sorry for your loss My mother died since 7 years
Condolences to you and your family for the loss of your father. May he always rest in peace. 🙏
Surely one of the greatest song writing duos ever.
Paul Simon wrote the songs-Garfunkel just sang them. It was all Paul Simon otherwise.
When you get older hearing this can bring some tears , because you're reminded of hearing it as a child and seeing your mom walk around the house doing chores, caring for you
and your family . And now hear it but she's gone, & the memories of her image and the sound of her voice is forever in your memory. I visited her 2 weeks before she died over 2 decades ago, she was down to 70 pounds from the horrible 'chemo' treatments they poisoned her with , my blood seemed to drop thru my body to my feet in shock when i saw her. I now wish i'd have wrapped my arms gently around her frail shoulders for a much longer time back then and cried for her , with her and held on for a long time to express to her how much i loved her.
WOW!!
Heartfelt...Our dear mothers. Like no other love.
I love you brother 🙏
Take heart brother, 2023 AD , Praise God, Amen! Take it easy
Just had to read this again. I feel very much the same.
My dad grew up listening to S&G in his teens. He would play them at home and in the car on our road trips to Michigan from Oregon. We would blast it loud and sing along together. I lost him in 2017. He meant everything to me. Now I listen to this music and tear up... but also makes me happy.
Dad had very good taste 💚🙏🏼✌️
S&G, Elvis, and Dean Martin were what we'd listen to on trips to Greece when I was a little kid.
I'm sorry about your dad. I lost mine when I was 15. But I'm glad you have sweet memories of him.
Some of the First music I remember from my oldest brother coming from his bedroom I lost him all the way back in 83 to suicide Bridge Over Troubled Waters was one of the songs at the memorial service so I to get teared up when I hear S&G
So sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss man, sounds like he was great.
This song, just as art, is a masterpiece, and then when you actually learn the feat that it took to make this recording what it is, you gain a whole different level of respect for it. This is literally one of the greatest pieces of recorded music in American history.
What's the feat?
@@jaberosier9853 Columbia had to get a recorder with more tracks to get every single layer that makes up this composition
It truely is one of the absolute greatest. I don't care what anyone says; without art, we would all be doomed.
And yet they still censored it at the Kennedy Center!
@@javamanV3why?
One of the greatest songs of all time.Simple as that.They'll be playing this on UA-cam and radio stations around the world in the next hundred years and beyond.Mark my words : ) May 2nd 2023.
Their music seems to combine hope and sadness so perfectly. Art Garfunkel is one of the greatest male vocalists I've ever heard.
Yes Hope !
Nach Freddy Mercury, mein Freund, nach Freddy.
Agreed Brian
Yes, next to Paul Simon. Of course, both of them are history, but they had some great songs
*@Brian Cox.* Indeed the best ballad about poverty and loneliness . It is truly a magnum opus.
This is not just a song, this is life.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
nice words, korean friend
It is VERY descriptive of MY life. It's kind of my "theme song" even if I was only 3 year old when it came out. IT IS LIFE
Exactly. Well said friend.
Simon and Garfunkel in my opinion r the best duo that ever teamed up. great harmonies, songs that meant something and all around great team
I'm 70 now but when I hear this song it takes me back to my youth. no regrets.
My father's face got messed up during his brief career as a fighter during The Great Depression. I used a line from this song when I wrote his obituary. His face carried the reminders..
I’m sorry 😞
This song got me through one of darkest and loneliest nights of my life in October 1985. Thank God for music. I don't think I'd be alive to tell the story otherwise.
Thanks Lisa. I know what you mean.
Lisa I was bummed out until l read your heartfelt note
I'm happy you're still here. I really am ❤
“All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest” What a killer line and like all great poetry, so true.
Like the way that people embrace the policies on one political party over another... All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
"...pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises"
This song mares me weep
The naked Truth.....
So very very true 🙏✌️🙏
How true, always been the same
This is honestly one of the best songs ever! It's a shame people hardly listen to S&G anymore.
Wtf are all these comments? This specific page alone hosting this song has over 80 million views, who are all these dolts thinking they're special for knowing about this forgotten gem that is still on the radio regularly ???
I live in Peru. They are big here.
I have Greatest Hits Disc. It us my Car Music as I go down life's roads. I still listen and sing with my them. These songs were my teen years songs. From Junior High School through the Viet Nam years and way past there.
@@berdyderg900Your Profile icon is a Big Capital letter "A". After reading your snarky post Thanks for acknowledging your TRUE SELF. A GREAT BIG "A"!!!......HOLE
I'm People and I'm Listening still!!!
A masterpiece, music doesn't get any better than this.
"Im leaving , Im leaving, but the fighter still remains" Epic
I still can't listen to this song without breaking down and weeping at some point it is one of the most powerful songs ever written
I have been practicing singing and this is one of the hardest songs to sing because at times my voice cracks while i sing it
@@julianlavalley7454 💞💞💞💞💞
I cannot listen to this song without shedding at least one tear. I've been listening to this my entire life, starting from when my dad would listen to it in the car when I was a kid and a teenager.
It's such a powerful song.
Same! It reminds me of my late daddy😥
Right on! I feel the same way.
It's hard to believe it's been 53 years, it seems like yesterday!😢
To all those amazing memories and the days we thought would last forever!❤️
That means this song is as old as I am yikes
Y'all people and your commentary on this song is simply BEAUTIFUL. God bless each of you. 🙏♥️
And God bless you 2!
One world one love
U2!
The gun shot drum sound in the chorus gets me every time. Absolutely chilling
That sound is actually the door of St Patrick's Cathedral in NY slamming shut, recorded inside the church. Always reminds me of when someone would drop a kneeler on the floor, almost the same.
It's the bass harmonica, played by Charlie McCoy, that really stands out.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X Hal Blaine on drums!
@@seamasrigh2162 I don't think that's the case. Some of the song was indeed recorded there but that gunshot snare sound was recorded by drummer Hal Blaine in front of an elevator in the offices of Columbia records.
@@seamasrigh2162 yep..heard that many-a-times..cradle catholic here
Paul Simon...one of the great poets of his generation.
of any generation
Absolutely ❤❤
One of the greatest American poets ever
@@jimpinkey8382 They never did as well apart as they did together.
Autori come loro, pieni di lirismo e spiritualita' oltre che di cultira, non esistono piu'.
Dear person reading this, You have Good Taste in Music.
I know.
Straight from the horses mouth!
You too
Everything about this song is beautiful. Same goes for Bridge Over Troubled Water.
I never want this song to end, I just want it to keep getting louder.
"..... in the clearing stands a boxer and fighting is his trade, and he carries the reminders, of every glove that laid him down, and cut him till he cried out, in his anger and his shame, i am leaving! i am leaving! but the fighter still remains...." Such a powerful verse. If you reflect about life most of us are the boxer this songs is talking about. Life has dealt us blows and at times in our lowest forms, we cry out how badly we want to quit this life, but at the end of the day we still wake up the following morning and live. Because fighting is our trade and it is only real fighters who remain standing.
My our strengths be renewed every morning and for those who are going through tough times, remember you are a boxer and fighting is your trade. Keep on fighting.
Those are beautiful words
Yep, we have to get up and keep going, not give up!! No matter how hard life can be. Thankyou for those words😊
Very thoughtful comment. Thank you.
By the lie.
Muuna Nkari thank you for your words. Just what I needed right now.
Thank you Mom for raising me with Good Music :-)
thank you mom and dad for being to lazy/drunk to buy condoms
Del Puckett - Guitar too*
Shayne Gallagher *too
Instrumental the boxer
lief
My husband and I went to see them in concert when we were dating in 1969 in Chapel Hill, NC. They were so great! We got married the following year and remained married for fifty years until his death in 2020. Every time I hear one of their songs it brings back great memories of dancing in the kitchen!
One of the most beautiful songs ever made
My father was a boxer when in the Marines. He was killed in a accident when my mom was 8 weeks pregnant with me. From what I hear of him he was a huge character and left an impression on everyone he met. Hope I make him smile
I'll bet that you do.
You’re honoring his memory with this wonderful song. He’s gone but not forgotten and maybe he’s smiling down on you
If there's one thing on earth that can make a man smile every time its his beautiful daughter...
He's smiling back from heaven.
He misses you Danielle.
He wishes he got to know you.
You are worth knowing.
He’s looking over you
Paul Simon: one of the greatest American songwriters/composers. Timeless.
Agreed!!!!
Joined by Brian Wilson, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits etc etc.
Art Garfunkel the only vocalists who could sing these songs.
@@Meneervdbergand John Lennon and Paul McCartney too
@@ericburns9132 Not american! But Paul McCartney is the greatest songwriter in the history of the world!
I originally heard this song on the radio in Montreal during late 1979. I am at a loss to explain why I still feel choked up from re-listening many times already. The lyrics pack quite a punch. How many viewers agree?
I used to listen to this song while my father drove me to middle school. We buried him years ago, I think about him every day, and I’m middle aged now. This song reminds me of better times. Once you’re old enough to understand the phrase “you can never go home” it’s too late to do anything about it. God bless you all, do your best.
Growing up in the 80s and listening to Simon and Garfunkel where the greatest time!
Ali, The greatest boxer of them all passed away today. RIP
+sweet cow 1 such rage who crapped in your cornflakes
Seriously, who hates Cassius Clay that much?
Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee, rest in peace Mohhamad Ali
+SCAN 😛
seems you got some anger issues sir, time to vent out and breathe. It does you no good to harbor such destructive emotions, there are ways to express emotions productively, you are simply being a nuisance, do not waste your time, express yourself creatively, your life will shine and happiness will be born.
The fact that this was posted 5 years ago and still gets 5-10 comments a day says music is still alive. This was a great song when I was a young man and will be a great song 100 years after I am dead.
for sure.. its just timeless and eternal to be honest
Brilliantly put.
We're here for but a short time,but some of us manage to leave something which will last forever.
And this is one example.
It means it is true art and not just a noise.
There is something divinely beautiful in this song
Most likely. Some songs will survive the test of time.. not many.
I am 72 yrs old. As a native New Yorker, not only do I relate to this song, it could have been written about me. My 3 favorite song writers are: Bob Dylan, Robt. Hunter and Paul Simon.
I can’t believe they did this song live on Saturday Night Live and they did PERFECTLY! The only thing missing was the loud crash. They really had the best harmony out of every other band out there!
When was that? Would love to have seen.
@@lindacraig7486not exactly sure but it was early SNL. You could probably google @Simon and Garfunkel SNL live” and see it!
“A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”
That couldn’t be more true today
I guess people don't change, we create fantastic technology to talk to each other from sides of the world and still have nothing good to say to eachother.
@@slitbodmod5555 , it was never like that on amateur radio. Maybe it was appreciation for all of the effort you had to put in to talk with someone outside of your "fishbowl".
It's not a recent thing. You hear what you want to hear based upon your beliefs and life experiences.
@@slitbodmod5555 Good point.
True words were never spoken!
I'm an old person these days but grew up with this timeless brilliance.
What can I say. I listened to it for the first time at the age of 18 and I still listen to it with great pleasure.
Me to
One of my biggest regrets is I never managed to see them live or in concert, Thank you Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. Apologies for my earlier inebriated post, before I edited it and thanks to those who pointed it out.
Paul annd Simon are the same person, lol.
Paul & Art!!! Brilliant forever!!! CMK. 👨🌾
I was lucky enough to see them in 1967 at The Royal Albert Hall. They were the first act I ever saw live - I was 15 at the time and had been a fan since first hearing Homeward Bound. Saw Paul at the same venue in 1973.
"The Boxer" is an exquisite masterpiece, more a work of art than just a song. Thank you, Art. Thank you, Paul. Love you guys, from the 1960's through the 2020's, and beyond...
its even more than a work of art, its also a work of paul!
Here we are on 2-22-2022 and still enjoying this beautiful and deep song!
Me too….❤️
Dulzura...
Yes a Masterpiece!
A fricking masterpiece. These boys did so much for music but nothing these days can hold a candle to this. Wonderful.
EXACTLY RIGHT
So true
I dont understand the use of the word BUT here. It usually indicates some form of contradiction, yet you state two obvious compliments towards S&G. The word AND would have been a better pick....otherwise I fully agree with you.
Disturbed does an incredible job on The Sound of Silence, and equals Simon and Garfunkel on it and many even say Disturbed does it better but I say equals them. They were and still are the best harmonizing duo ever and probably always will be
True!
I'm glad to be a young person exposed to old music like this.
Anyone can talk about the song that came out last year, but some songs just stick around for decades in your mind.
I remember as a kid, my mother was (and still is) obsessed with Simon and Garfunkel. Every time I had to do chores, whether it be cleaning the car or my room, she would crank up their music. Now whenever I listen to any of their songs, I always get more work done.
lol same with me except it was the Eagles
In the immortal words of the dude. "I hate the f@ckin' eagles, man."
Funny, for my Mom it was The Mamas and Papas. Simon and Garfunkel reminds me of my Dad, and listening to them on 8-track!
my mothers was Elvis
My mom's was 80's music. Yet I'm into the Beatles and 60's music lol
Their music has this strange quality. It's like reuniting with a best friend that you've never met before after being apart for years. It's happy, sad, uplifting, melancholic, nostalgic and fresh all at the same time.
How poetic. Love, love, love your comment ❤️
I think your comment just can't be bettered. I think the term is "hitting the nail on the head"
I was reading an interview with Paul Simon and he said its mainly about himself in the guise of a boxer and how life was throwing him heavy punches. The _"I am leaving"_ part was saying he didn't know how many more he could take but he still remained.
@@TonyEnglandUK that's cool. But I listen to every song with my favorite line from Guitar Man by Bread. "You find yourself a message and some words to call your own and take them home" . That's why each and every person in my world has a specific ring tone. My daughter is "Sweet Child O' Mine and my son is "Simple Man". From the very first time I heard each, after they were born , it was "their song". We didn't have cell phones in '85 and '91 (most of us in '91), but the minute I found an app ... believe me, each and every time they call, I answer at the last 2nd as I sing along.
@@marybuckson237 Indeed we do find our own messages. The loud crash noises in the chorus remind me of the sound my Father, an ex-boxer, landed clean punches. Unfortunately for me, his punches were in my direction, too. That still resonates more with me than Paul's own statement about the lyrics.
Beautiful song. Can't get over the fact that it sounds like someone is kicking an amplifier, rocking the reverb tank to make the crashing sound. Awsome effect, though.
I have been singing this song to myself for nearly 50 years. Its timeless!
Me too
i love simon and garfunkle song and im 51years old
Hard to believe there was an era where music like this once existed. What happened?
Modern music lost all of its meaning and uniqueness. So many artists in the modern Era sound the same due to globalization and it makes me sick. Old music has that uniqueness in every artist's sounds though, giving it its amazing touches and sounds.
Laziness
The internet.
And that, I think, was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting-on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark-that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
Hunter S. Thomspon
1974 Buick going to hockey sounded good in the back seat .
Seven years ago I finished up graduate school. I left school thinking a decent job was my birth right. Wrong. I worked several minimum-wage jobs, and I also spent a year unemployed. I would listen to this song at the library in between my job searches. I took a humble comfort from the song's grittily beautiful lyrics. I then found a job working as a janitor at a psychiatric hospital. I spent 40+ hours a week cleaning and hauling garbage. A year passed, and then I became an orderly at the same hospital. I've been spat on, punched, and scratched by psychiatric patients, but somehow I have survived. I have obtained a strength that I had never envisioned, but which I now cling to as eagerly as a blanket on a winter night. I have spent the past few months recovering from abdominal surgery, a surgery with complications that almost killed me. I have my scars, both mental and physical. Looking back on these past seven years is like looking down a long corridor, and from time to time these lyrics reverberate from the past and into the present : "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." Thank you, Simon and Garfunkel.
James, what a beautiful, profound sharing of lived experience! You have lived through it all, there wont be much life can throw at you that you wont be able to handle, and by this honest, heartfelt exposure, you give others hope and confirmation that it is possible. Go well be blessed and keep inspirung.
Hats off. I'm so happy I have come across your story here... It's a great source of inspiration and motivation for me to carry on. I wish U all the best!
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Hi Man
Sometimes life just give you the shitter and you are broken. Lo and behold, there is always a workaround. I lost my job to the corona devil master. Now i work as a work-man paid on the hour, and i hate it. I have degrees but they are not sought after so i continue to do my job. I know this is not very helpfull to your situation but you can never give in. Cheers mate.
Your story is amazing. God, I am so proud of you!
my mom bringing home this album.. played it over and over I know every word RIP mommy miss you she loved S&G she was ahead of her time!
I listen to this every time I want to quit.
I have lived this song, in some ways. Ran off from home (Virginia) at age 18, spent a miserable but very educational 6 months in NYC (1969) - the fault is my own, not the city's. If you flip a little bit from the experience of a young boy to a young girl, you'll get it. Now, I can listen to it with fond memories of what I suffered, and what I learned. Thank you, Paul, and NYC.
Sometimes misery and hardship help us to appreciate even the smallest of comforts later on.
Yes, Ray that is so true. I learned it the hard way, but often the hard way is the only way your hard head will learn ...
'69 was a tough year in NYC. We're better now, come back for a visit.
+Jenna West wow
+MaximumLemons because paul wrote the song and art didnt
Paul Simon penned many masterpieces, and this one is the jewel in his crown. One of the greatest songs ever written.
Superb songwriter. Got into a lot of trouble with Scarborough Fair, though.
@@TonyEnglandUK How so?
@@farrellmcnulty909 Paul Simon didn't write Scarborough Fair, it's an old traditional English ballad written centuries ago. Martin Carthy introduced Paul Simon to the song and when Paul recorded it he didn't credit the original ballad, so it looked like he was essentially stealing the song. Obviously it was really just an oversight on Paul Simon's part but there was a lot of trouble over it. Even today, Google replies _"Paul Simon"_ when asked it _"Who wrote Scarborough Fair."_
@@TonyEnglandUK I had no idea. Thanks, Tony
Bridge over trouble water, too.
I was listening to this song as I drove around the bays of Wellington in New Zealand. I was 35. Now I'm 68 and on the other side of the world. I'm right back in my car.... time has flown.
Never more relevant; what a story, what lyrics.
It's cool being a young person and stumbling across stuff like this. It's like music from another dimension
I'm glad you found it...being young and Simon and Garfunkel go hand in hand. Full of hope and idealism, but not blinkered optimism.
so truehrusah - rah
Cool! I'm a teen and I love S&G music, too.
You know, this is like the mature version of the comments saying "I'm (insert age here) and I like this music, not (insert generic modern pop singer/group)!"
I applaud you for that.
I am in their dimension cause I'm a dimension traveler. I think we all are.
These are the kind of music that will go on for generations.
True!!!!
Your not wrong a classic feels warming
And they are 😉
R.I.P. My lovely mother. ;´(
thanks for my memories of my youth....each song is important to me
This may literally be one of the best songs ever written and recorded. To this day I can listen and play it on my guitar over and over again and never get tired of it. So deep!!
Keith I agree with you.
Simon and Garfunkel didn't have a bad song.Superb.
I agree: no bad song
Damn, that fingerpicking run-down in the outro will never get old. Sounds so technical, but in its entirety, it's only three chords. Paul Simon is a master at making a few chords sound like a flurry of notes that must have come from a lot of chord changes. That's the magic of fingerpicking. Simon is definitely one of the best of all time.
It's taken from Travis fingerpicking, a '60 technique by Merle Travis and Chat Atkins
Genius...
@@Escape99100 Chet and Merle were imitating the Country blues pickers like Mose Rager, in the same tradition that Mississippi John hurt, Etta Baker, and Elizabeth Cotten grew up around and learned (now frequently called Piedmontblues).
You have an extremely eloquent way of explaining this, very nicr
THat's for the history, information and the finger-tip - hardy har.
Listening to Simon and Garfunkel is just like hearing two angels sing. No matter how bad things are, or how low I'm feeling, their music always transports me to a far better place. Absolutely beautiful.
You, as the boxer, will come to realize that you are but a short-lived phenomenon, and as such, you are to be forever treasured.
My father loved this song with all his heart and he passed away ten years ago. I love you dad, thank you for everything. We live on. Our favorite songs survive.
Your Father had excellent taste.
This song describes my dad, He was a boxer, a brave man of lesser means. This song reminds me of his mindset. He left us and to this day, I do not know where he died or is buried. I wonder if he ever knew that he mattered to me. RIP Dad.
Manny, your post touches me. I suggest you have faith that what ever path he took, you were in his heart. With love and perhaps with guilt. If he thought of it, he would know that you would wonder and care. And that you think of him in a positive way is a good reflection on you both, for he passed on some of himself to you. From an old man, David
This whole album was off the chain 2024
Paul Simon , the Greatest song writer that ever lived.
Love and blessings from Dublin Ireland ❤️🙏🕊️🔥👑🇮🇪
First time I heard this song was when I was a very young African boy growing up in a tiny village called Ikot Uboh in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. It touched something inside me and still does today. That "something" is the animating life force that runs through all living beings throughout the entire universe. Anybody who quarrels with IT is just wasting his or her time. Nobody can disconnect living beings from one another.
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Much love
What a true and lovely comment.
I am 58 . I live in Venezuela . and it touched me all long time ago
Its s great song. I loved it in 9ja too
This song is like, a metaphor for life. Not to take anything away from Garfunkle and his contribution, but Simon really had a serious gift from God in songwriting.
I completely agree
Paul Simon... the short hero for Short men like me (5'7 is short for the White standard in Aus lol)
One of the most powerful songs of all time. The lyrics. The melody. The instruments. The production. All flawless. Simon an absolute genius and Garfunkels voice made for music that will be listened to for hundreds of years. Taylor who?
My parents were the two best people in the world. I can remember laying on the living room floor on my back looking under the stereo at the moon shaped speakers with the blue glow learning every word to this album. NEVER forgot a single word. Thank God for strict parents keeping me home safe and sound listening to Simon and Garfunkle
i'm with you my friend my life as well..
When I read moon shaped speakers with the blue glow it gave me a shiver up my back. Thank you :)
Mary Reese Yes! Me too! I use to complain that I felt like I was growing up in Fort Knox! LOL!! Now I'm Thankful! Thank You DAD! He passed on 10/5/2017! Missed but taught me well! Respect, appreciate, love!!
I actually get a little little sad when I hear how people had good parents,if i raised to my hyesst level of human I would never had done jail or taken love for granted.. good on ypur parents lucky you
@Deanne Magee you're message broke my heart. My parents were so strict. I was the youngest of 4, born into the Roman Catholic faith. My friend's parents were in their 30's. They could do ANYTHING. I spent 3/4 of my teenage years grounded because I wanted their freedom and always got caught. Music was my way to get through those 6 weeks at a time, just to mess up within a week. After becoming a mother, in a shit marriage, I would call them to apologize and thank them for being exactly what I needed. You survived girl and thank God you did
Goosebumps EVERY SINGLE TIME. One of THE greatest songs ever written
You need some serious help.
@@WallyVanRiper1 Care to elaborate? We're discussing Simon and Garfunkel here not Nickelback.
I never heard them when they were on top, because I was deaf as a door knob. I got fitted with a cochlear 3yrs ago, and found these two, I'm so so happy to hear their fabulous music, I play these two over and over. I'm 81yrs old now. God bless all fans that keep this music alive. Bless Simon and Garfunkel
@@petergreen2552 Don't mind Wally. He probably listens to Justin Bieber. In his mother's basement.
Paul Simon, one of the great musical geniuses of the 20th century.
Thank you to all the first responders, on that day.
Je ne m'en lasse pas ! Quelle chanson poignante, prenante, d'une mélodie incroyable !!! Chef d'œuvre ! 🙌💛👏👍😘😔☺️❤️❤️❤️🙋♀️
Some days I have to remind myself that the fighter still remains
So true
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I too must remind myself of this often.
Always been 1😉😍😣
Please, don't forget it. Kind thoughts to you.
This week is the anniversary (52yrs) of one of the greatest songs ever written and sung by Simon And Garfunkel. ”The Boxer” was released in March 1969. It would ultimately be a part of their greatest album, The Bridge over Troubled Waters, which would be released the following January 1970. The Boxer has been playing across the Internet this week and I happened to catch it for the first time in many years. It is one of those songs that created an emotional attachment with its listeners and transports them right back to their first contact with it, so many years ago. In my case, I was just finishing up my senior year in high school and had been awarded a scholarship to a college far from my home. I was contemplating the reality of leaving my home and school friends of the last 12 years of my life and going far away from them all for possibly the next 4 years. There were many unknowns facing me in my future. This song came on the radio with cascading notes wrapped around the words “…I am just a poor boy…” and I was immediately drawn in emotionally to it by the dramatic music which had such an urgency about it. The recurring phrase “…Lie-la-lie…” appears in large portions of the song leaving space for deep personal considerations. Paul Simon later said that they were just place holders where lyrics had not yet been formed for the song. In the end, the dramatic effect made the song much more expansive without adding specific lyrics. The songwriter left it to the listeners to fill in their own stories for that portion of the song. The words “…laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was going home…” grabbed me. As I listened, I wondered if I would be that guy or make it in the big, wide world ahead. I felt more attached to the boxer, so knocked down, again and again, and cut up, desiring to leave. He took every hit in every fight and was ready to quit. Still, he remains and we, too, remain. The rest of the song is an empty palette of “…Lie-la-lie…” set with ever expanding crescendos of music, urging us to tell our own story until coming to the final retreat and rest at the end. All of those blank spaces I have now filled after all these years. I am that boxer. I've had many battles in the last 50 years. Lost quite a few. Cut up and shot down, like millions of others before me. Every ‘boom’ of that drum means its time to get back up. Life's final crescendo has come on me, this last week. The VA says that I have Stage 4 Cirrhosis of the Liver. With all the other medical malice’s punching my body at this point, this ‘boxer’ has decided to fight no more. Let the music play on. “… I know in whom I have believed and am persuaded that HE is able to keep that which I have committed unto HIM against that day.” 2Timothy 1:12
God bless you and keep you strong. Your story brought tears to my eyes.
The World thanks you for fighting the Good Fight. May God bless.
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i hope you are in a more peaceful place 🙏❤️
Fos as long as you live you are branded a true fighter. Hang in there man ... best to you and be at peace. I hope there will be someboy by your side when the big moment comes.
They have given us a song whose freshness will never die, and will be passed on from one generation to another.
Pretty damn beautiful
"I am just a poor boy, though my story is seldom told. I have squandered my resistance on a pocketful of mumbles--such are promises. All lies and jests. Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."
If I had written just these lines, I'd have been content to have that be my contribution to humanity. What a poet.
Truly poetic, no other way to describe it. Brings a smile to my face and my heart overflows with admiration.