A good man doesn't drink   And I've been drinking alone   So what does that make me?      My hands they always shake   And no one's calling my phone   So what does that make me?      And I know the kid with his guitar   So drunk and anxious   Has been done to death   But tell me what hasn't   I'll try it      Because I'm selfish enough   to wanna get better   But I'm backwards enough   not to take any steps to get there      And when you realize it's a pattern   And not a phase   It's what you've become   And it's what you will stay   That's ballgame      'Cause I don't got room in my life   for anyone else   And I've driven away all the   people that could help   And I still don't even know what I   need to do to fix myself      And there's a clamp around my chest   It tightens every time I lapse into   Another sorry story      About my miserable collapse   A bronze box I keep encased in glass   And dust off whenever I want your pity      'Cause lately I've had to come to grips   with scope and figure   How my problems stack up in a world   two steps from ruin   (Or maybe it's rapture)      Well, either way, I realize that my shit's   about as small as it could be   But that makes me feel worse for even feeling   this bad in the first place      'Cause there's a war starting soon, and all   the flags'll be waving   And Daniel's 20-year-old friend will be ready,   and willing, and waiting   He's a Marine and he told me      And that makes me sad   Really, really fucking sad   But at least he'll act      I'll just bite my tongue and then say:   "Daniel, you wish him luck"   I pray that he comes back   For his mother's sake, and then I'll drink   those thoughts away   I've gotten good at that      'Cause when you realize it's a pattern   And not a phase   It's what you've become   And it's what you will stay   That's ballgame   Oh oh oh      Yeah when you realize it's a pattern   And not a phase   It's what you've become   And it's what you will stay   That's ballgame      Yeah when you realize it's a pattern   And not a phase   It's what you've become   And it's what you will stay   That's ballgame