#5: "The Game"

The Game, a song by Jamie Klenetsky about baseball.

That's right, this is about baseball. I suppose the lyrics could make it about most things, but this is a song about the Mitchell (a.k.a. Steroids in MLB) Report. Baseball has always been an important part of my life, and the report made me numb; players you grow up with, idolize, using steroids and HGH, it just made me sick. I had to write something about it, so here we go.

It's meant to sound old, kind of like it is coming out of a radio, hence the static. Numbness, hence the flatness. The percussion kind of sounds like someone typing on a keyboard. Perhaps this is a reporter working into the wee hours of the morning, writing his take on the Report. In any case, this song is simple and rather sad, I think. I like it, and I think it expresses my feelings about this well. I still love the game, but I wish I didn't.

Lyrics:

Boy, what have you done
what have you done to me?
My boy, don't you think that
everybody believed in you?

We wanted to love you
And maybe, some still do.
We wanted to love you...

Those hot, heartbreaking nights,
to which I swore each day
Shining there in the lights
Gathered around to watch the play.

We wanted to love you,
and maybe I still do.
We wanted to love you...

I know it's about you
It was never a game.
Who knows,
maybe, to stay,
I would have done the same.

I wish that you could see
you were a hero.
But I wanted you to
be made of flesh and bone.

We wanted to love you
And sadly, I still do.