Beth
Aug-06-2004, 04:24 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
 | Here´s what Paul says about "The Boxer"...that he was about him.....
?I was reading the Bible around that time. That´s where I think phrases such as ´workman´s wages´ came from, and ´seeking out the poorer quarters´. That was biblical. I think the song was about me: everybody´s beating me up, and I´m telling you now I´m going to go away if you don´t stop. By that time we had encountered our first criticism. For the first few years, it was just pure praise. It took two or three years for people to realize that we weren´t strange creatures that emerged from England but just two guys from Queens who used to sing rock´n´roll. And maybe we weren´t real folkies at all! Maybe we weren´t even hippies!?.
?I thought that "lie la lie" was a failure of songwriting. I didn´t have any words! Then people said it was "lie" but I didn´t really mean that. That it was a lie. But, it´s not a failure of songwriting, because people like that and they put enough meaning into it, and the rest of the song has enough power and emotion, I guess, to make it go, so it´s all right. But for me, every time I sing that part... [softly], I´m a little embarrassed?.
?All I can remember is a time on a plane. I had taken a bible from one of the hotels and I was skimming through the bible and I think I saw the phrase "work- man´s wages." That´s all I remember from that song?.
?The Boxer" came with the melody line; they had a flow to them that made them easy to sing. Consequently I found I had started a song about a "poor boy" who had "squandered (his) resistance/For a pocketful of mumbles:´ I just tried to make the rest of the lyrics follow as naturally as possible?.
?The first thing we did in sixteen-track was The Boxer. It wasn´t a sixteen-track machine; it was two eight-track machines synchronized, and it was a bitch to get them to work together. In other words, you had to press the button at the same time to record that way. It was hard. Halee rigged it out. It was hard?.
" ?the snare drum on "The Boxer was recorded in the elevator shaft of the CBS studios in New York at 52nd Street. That was a pure Roy sound. He situated the drum in the elevator shaft and he hit it and he recorded that. It was just huge?.
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