The Decemberists - 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 and stopped 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 relation 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 And father had had such hopes For a son who would take the ropes And fufill 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 have known he thinks again I never should have put him in He turns to load 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