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Kevin Devine lyrics : "Ballgame"

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 %#@!'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 $#&@ing 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

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