The Sporting Life chords by The Decemberists
Verse 1
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Em
I fell on the playing field
C
The work of an errant heel
The din of the crowd and
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the loud commotion
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Went deafening silence and
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stopped emotion
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The season was almost done
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We managed it 12 to 1
So far I had known no humiliation
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In front of my friends
and close relations
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Verse 2
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There's my father looking on
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And there's my girlfriend arm in arm
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With the captain of the other team
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And all of this is clear to me
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C
They condescend and fix on me a frown
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How they love the sporting life
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Verse 3
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And father had had such hopes
For a son who would take
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the ropes
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And fulfill all his old athletic aspirations
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D
But apparently now there's
some complications
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Em
But while I am lying here
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Trying to fight the tears
I'll prove to the crowd that I
Am
come out stronger
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Though I think I might lie here
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a little longer
Verse 4
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There's my coach he's looking down
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The disappointment in his
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knitted brow
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I should've known
He thinks again
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I never should have put him in
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He turns and loads the lemonade away
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D
And breathes in deep
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The sporting life
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Em
The sporting life
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The sporting life
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How he loves
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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There's my father looking on
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And there's my girlfriend arm in arm
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Em
With the captain of the other team
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And all of this is clear to me
D
C
They condescend and fix on me a frown
Am
D
G
How they love the sporting life
Outro 1
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The Sporting Life
The Decemberists
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