Lyrics
I fell on the playing field
The work of an errant heel
The din of the crowd and the loud commotion
Went deafening silent and stopped in motion
The season was almost done
We'd managed it twelve to one
So far I'd known no humiliation
In front of my friends and close relations
But 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
The 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 fulfill 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 crouwd 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've put him in."
He turns to load the lemonade away
And breathes in deep the sporting life.
Rpt. First Chorus