The Sporting Life

I fell on the playing field
 the work of an errant heel
 the din of the crowd and the loud commotion
 when deafening silence had stopped the motion
 the season was almost done
 we'd managed it twelve to one
 so far I had known no humiliation
 in front of my friends and close relations
 there's my father looking on
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 and there's my girlfriend arm in arm
 with the captain of the other team
 and all of this is clear to me
 they condescend to fix on me a frown
 how they love... the sporting life
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 and father had had such hopes
 for a son who would take the ropes
 and fulfill all his old athletic aspirations
 but apparently now there's some complications
 but while I am lying here
 trying to fight the tears
 I'll prove to the crowd that I come out stronger
 though i think i might lie here a little longer
 'cause there's my coach, he's looking down
 the disappointment in his knitted brow
 "i should've known," he thinks again
 "i never should have put him in"
 he turns and loads the lemonade away
 and breathes in deep
 the sporting life
 the sporting life
 the sporting life
 how he loves...
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 there's my father looking on
 ♪
 and there's my girlfriend arm in arm
 with the captain of the other team
 and all of this is clear to me
 they condescend to fix on me a frown
 how they love
 ohh. the sporting life
 the sporting life
 the sporting life
 how they love...