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