Lyrics:

Sáng tác: Paul Simon
1.
I am just a poor boy tho' my story's seldom told. I have squandered my resistance. For a pocketful of
mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the
rest.
2.
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 lie lie lie lie lie lie la lie.
Lie la lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie la lie.
3.
Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job. But I get no offers, just a come on from the
whores on Second Avenue. I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome. I took some comfort
there.
La la la la...
Lie la lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie la lie.
Lie la lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie la lie.
4.
And I am 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.
5.
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 shame, I am leaving, I am leaving. But the
fighter still remains.
Lie la lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie la lie.
Lie la lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie la lie.