Sporting Life Chords & Lyrics - Decemberists

[G]I fell on the playing feild
[Em]The work of an errant heel
[C]The din of the crowd and the loud commotion
[Am]When deafening [D]silence and stopped motion
[G]The season was almost done
[Em]We'd managed it twelve to one
[C]So far I had known no humiliation
[Am]In front of my [D]friends and close relation

[Cmaj7]There's my father looking on [G]
[Cmaj7]And there's my girlfriend arm in [G]arm
With the [Em]captain of the other team
And [C]all of this is clear to me
They [D]condescend to fix on me a [C]frown
[Am]How they [D]love
The [G]sporting life

[G]And father had had such hopes
[Em]For a son who would take the ropes
[C]And fufill all his old athletic aspirations
[Am]But apparently [D]now there's some complications
[G]But while I am lying here
[Em]Trying to fight the tears
[C]I'll prove to the crowd that I come out stronger
[Am]Though I think I might [D]lie here a little longer

[Cmaj7]'Cause there's my coach, he's looking down [G]
[Cmaj7]The disappointment in his knitted brow [G]
I [Em]should have known he thinks again,
&qu[C]ot;I never should have put him in"
He [D]turns to load the lemonade a[C]way
And [Am]breathes in [D]deep
The [G]sporting life
The [Em]sporting life
The [C]sporting life
How he [G]loves

[INTERLUDE]
[G] [Em] [C] [G]

[Cmaj7]There's my father looking on [G]
[Cmaj7]And there's my girlfriend arm in [G]arm
With the [Em]captain of the other team
And [C]all of this is clear to me
They [D]condescend to fix on me a [C]frown
[Am]How they [D]love
The [G]sporting life
The [Em]sporting life
The [C]sporting life
How they [G]love

[OUTRO]
[G] [Em] [C] [G]
[G] [Em] [C] [G]