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Boxing Champ Lyrics
We went to the youth club and we looked out of place.
I didn't know where to look
so I, looked at your face.
But you were a boxing champ, and I was a weakling.
You didn't give me a chance,
You gave me a beating.
And I thank you very much that you did.
And as the time went by we stayed out of trouble,
Before I could realise my age had doubled.
The man I became is a tragic bore,
And he's not a boxing champ anymore.
If there's one thing i've learnt it's to run away,
At least I enjoy what I do today.
And I thank you very much that I do.
I didn't know where to look
so I, looked at your face.
But you were a boxing champ, and I was a weakling.
You didn't give me a chance,
You gave me a beating.
And I thank you very much that you did.
Before I could realise my age had doubled.
The man I became is a tragic bore,
And he's not a boxing champ anymore.
If there's one thing i've learnt it's to run away,
At least I enjoy what I do today.
And I thank you very much that I do.
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Submitted by
bing_redboy On Feb 28, 2007
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I'm guessing this is about someone who bullied him when he was younger, and so he "stayed out of trouble" meaning now he has achieved something with his life whereas the bully is now nothing.
good guessing! me myself have no idea, lovely song though
Who is singing this? Because I know it's not Ricky. Maybe it's Nick or something. Possibly. Beautiful song though.
@DeaMaxwell Nick Hodgson
@DeaMaxwell Nick Hodgson
boxing champ tells of an incident at a youth club in Otley when Nick Hodgson fled a potential beating, leaving Simon Rix to suffer the consequences. Simon Rix was with a girl in a corner, Nick Hodgson ran off, but later Simon Rix got beaten up by the gang that Nick had escaped from.
in an interview thing, nick said that he wrote this song because his girlfriend was in a library and a man kept shouting "boxing champ" so she told nick to write a song with that title, and it is about one of the band getting beat up too, i can't remember who it was though, possibly simon.
Regardless of what the song is about, i relate it to a relationship. The person that he looks at when he says i didnt know where to look so i looked at your face, is his girlfriend or girl/friend.
I always thought it was just about the hierarchy of being young
Always thought it's about two totally different people meeting each other when they were young. One of them the weakling, the other is the Boxing Champ. They contemplate about how they were now and then.
The first verse is the weakling talking about himself when he was young, the second verse about the boxing champ when i becomes old.