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The Decemberists
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The Sporting Life
Lyricist:Colin Patrick Meloy
I fell on the playing field, the work of an errant heel The din of the crowd and the loud commotion Went deafening silence and stopped emotion The season was almost done, we managed it 12 to 1 So far I had known no humiliation In front of my friends and close relations
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 and fix on me a frown How they love the sporting life
And father, it 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 Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com I'll prove to the crowd that I come out stronger Though I think I might lie here a little longer
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
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 the sporting life The sporting life, the sporting life, how they love
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