Topic: The Boxer

Soundtrack: The Boxer

Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer - The Boxer (soundtrack)

The Boxer is a 1997 film by Irish director Jim Sheridan starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson. Day-Lewis plays Danny Flynn, a boxer and former IRA man, who is trying to stay straight after his release from prison.

The Boxer was nominated for three Golden Globes in the Picture, Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Director (Jim Sheridan) categories. It also competed for the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival in 1998.

Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer composed the score of The Boxer and wrote two songs for it: In The Shadow Of A Gun and Everything’s Gonna Be Alright.


The Boxer – Lyrics

In the Shadow of a Gun

 

Cover my eyes, lead me away
one step, two step… towards the water
past the door, past the door, let me out of here
feels like the future, looks like the past
Lover, lover, lover true.
Mother, father, son
Look in the water, what do I see?
The face of the face haunting me
Blood on his legs, eyes run red
and the scream of an angel in my head
Feels like the future, looks like the past.
Makes me wanna kill…
Lover, lover, lover true.
Mother, mother, father, son…
In the shadow of a gun, I break my love,
no feelings here, just a fist in a glove,
A fist in a glove.
Feels like the future, looks like the past
In the shadow of a shadow, the father in the son
In the shadow of a shadow, can never be one,
can never be one, the father in the son
can never be one, in the shadow of a gun.

 

Everything’s gonna be alright

Tell me everything will be all right
and you’ll be coming home with me for the night
Tell me nothing’s wrong
Baby, I don’t know where you are
I treat you wrong, made you compromise
You’re still the same, I see it in your eyes
Words dont mean a thing
What more can I say?
Tell me everything will be all right
Woman you’re not alone
Answer me, where’re you coming from
Show me, show me love
I need you now, more than ever
How does it feel
when all the world pulls you down
How does it feel
I don’t care, baby we can walk on air
Like the first time, tonight won’t be the last time
Tell me nothing’s wrong
Baby I don’t know where you are
Woman you’re not alone
Answer me where you’re coming from
Show me, show me love
I need you now, more than ever
Woman, you’re not alone
Answer me where you’re coming from
Show me show me love
I need you now, more than ever

 

Written & arranged by Gavin Friday & Maurice Seezer.

The Boxer on DVD (1997)

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Soundtrack – The Boxer – Lyrics

In the shadow of a gun

In the shadow of a gun lyrics

Cover my eyes, lead me away
one step, two step… towards the water
past the door, past the door, let me out of here
feels like the future, looks like the past
Lover, lover, lover true.
Mother, father, son
Look in the water, what do I see?
The face of the face haunting me
Blood on his legs, eyes run red
and the scream of an angel in my head
Feels like the future, looks like the past.
Makes me wanna kill…
Lover, lover, lover true.
Mother, mother, father, son…
In the shadow of a gun, I break my love,
no feelings here, just a fist in a glove,
A fist in a glove.
Feels like the future, looks like the past
In the shadow of a shadow, the father in the son
In the shadow of a shadow, can never be one,
can never be one, the father in the son
can never be one, in the shadow of a gun.

Everything’s gonna be alright

Tell me everything will be all right
and you’ll be coming home with me for the night
Tell me nothing’s wrong
Baby, I don’t know where you are
I treat you wrong, made you compromise
You’re still the same, I see it in your eyes
Words dont mean a thing
What more can I say?
Tell me everything will be all right
Woman you’re not alone
Answer me, where’re you coming from
Show me, show me love
I need you now, more than ever
How does it feel
when all the world pulls you down
How does it feel
I don’t care, baby we can walk on air
Like the first time, tonight won’t be the last time
Tell me nothing’s wrong
Baby I don’t know where you are
Woman you’re not alone
Answer me where you’re coming from
Show me, show me love
I need you now, more than ever
Woman, you’re not alone
Answer me where you’re coming from
Show me show me love
I need you now, more than ever

Written & arranged by Gavin Friday & Maurice Seezer.

Variety mentions Boxer score

Industry magazine “Variety” reviews “The Boxer” and “Zesty score by Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer contributes some agreeably unexpected textures”.

‘The Boxer’ up for Globes

Jim Sheridan’s film The Boxer and leading man Daniel Day-Lewis have been nominated for the Golden Globe Awards.

‘The Boxer’ soundtrack USA release date

MCA will be releasing the soundtrack to ‘The Boxer’ in the US on February 24, 1998.

‘The Boxer’ premiere dates

The movie ‘The Boxer’ for which Gavin and Maurice have written the score will open in the USA for December 31 at the Cineplex Odeon Beekman in New York, the General Cinema AVCO Westwood in Los Angeles and Cineplex Odeon Varsity in Toronto. Opens nationwide (in USA) in January.