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 the 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 relations      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 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've 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 and fix on me a frown      How they love   Ohh... the sporting life   The sporting life   The sporting life   How they love...