Decemberists The Sporting Life Lyrics

The Sporting Life Lyrics

I fell on the playing field 

the work of an arrant heel 

the din of the crowd and the loud commotion 

went deafening silent and stoped the motion 



the season was almost done 

we 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 and 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 fulfill all his old athletic asperations 

but aparently 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... 



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 

ohh.. the sporting life 

the sporting life 

the sporting life 

how they love...