The disappointment in his knitted brow
And all of this is clear to me
How they love the sporting life
He turns and loads the lemonade away
There's my father looking on
And fulfill all his old athletic aspirations
Though I think I might lie here a little longer
With the captain of the other team
Went deafening silence and stopped emotion
There's my coach, he's looking down
In front of my friends and close relations
And breathes in deep the sporting life
But apparently now there's some complications
Songwriter: Colin Patrick Meloy
How they love the sporting life
I'll prove to the crowd that I come out stronger
Publisher: OSTEROZHNA! MUSIC
With the captain of the other team
The sporting life, the sporting life, how they love
They condescend and fix on me a frown
The season was almost done, we managed it 12 to 1
The din of the crowd and the loud commotion
And father, it had such hopes for a son who would take the ropes
I fell on the playing field, the work of an errant heel
I should've known, he thinks again
The sporting life, the sporting life, how he loves
They condescend to fix on me a frown
And all of this is clear to me
And there's my girlfriend arm in arm
And there's my girlfriend arm in arm
There's my father looking on
I never should have put him in
But while I am lying here trying to fight the tears
So far I had known no humiliation