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| Headline | Boxer chorus - lying liers |
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Proof
Sep-03-2010, 06:03 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Do you listen to the chorus as just sounds (as was probably intended)?
I´ve always heard an accusation - LIE LIE LIE. Seeing truth is a big part of this music.
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Proof
Sep-03-2010, 06:04 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Reminds me of Austin Powers - MOLE MOLE MOLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvxe04wGmTw |
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Bodo
Sep-03-2010, 09:43 GMT
Austria
 | Me too, I also always thought about lies |
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Ian
Sep-03-2010, 17:02 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| One popular interpretation of the lyric is that it was about Bob Dylan. In his early career,Dylan attempted to cultivate an image of himself as coming from a very disadvantaged economic and social background(´I am just a poor boy´) and many an interviewers attempts to pin him down on this were met with Dylan´s BOXER-like reflexes,parrying their blows like a prizefighter. So Paul may have actually been saying Dylan was lie la lying about his actually upper middle-class background. Who knows? |
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nancy
Sep-03-2010, 21:03 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Paul has said that the "lie,la, lie didn´t mean anything. He said it was just a song writing failure because he couldn´t think of anything else to put there. |
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Royd
Sep-04-2010, 04:38 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I never thought it had a thing to do with Dylan. It´s important to know that the Columbia Records offices were on 7th Avenue in New York in the 60´s, hence the "whores on 7th Avenue" refers to his own record label. The song is a very personal statement from Paul Simon about the triumph of the human spirit ("the fighter still remains") in the face of overwhelming adversity ("every glove that cut him"). In my opinion, this record was the epitome of Simon & Garfunkel´s work. |
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Proof
Sep-04-2010, 07:50 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| "lie lie lie" is common singing in synagogue. |
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