don’t let anyone say that it’s just a game
for i’ve seen other teams and it’s never the same
when you’re born in chicago you are blessed and you’re healed
the first time you walk into wrigley field
our heros wear pinstripes and heros in blue
give us the chance to feel like heros too
whether we’ll win and if we should lose,
we know someday we’ll go all the way,
yeah, someday we’ll go all the way!
we are one with the cubs, with the cubs we’re in love
hold our head high as the the underdogs
we are not fairweather but farweather fans
like brothers in arms, in the streets and the stands
theres magic in the ivy and the old score board
the same one i stared at as a kid keeping score
in a world full of greed i could never want more
someday we’ll go all the way
yeah, someday we’ll go all the way
someday we’ll go all the way
yeah, someday we’ll go all the
someday we’ll go all the way
heres to the men and the legends we’ve known
teaching us faith and giving us hope
united we stand and united we’ll fall
down to our knees the day we win it all
yeah ernie banks said “well lets play two”
or did he mean two hundred years
in the same ball park, our dimond, our jewel
the home of our joy and our tears
keeping traditions and wishes made new
the place where our grandfathers’ fathers grew
the spiritual feeling if i ever knew
if you aint been, i am sorry for you
and when the day comes for that last winning run
and i’m crying covered in beer
i look to the sky and know i was right
to think someday we’ll go all the way
yeah someday we’ll go all the way
some day we’ll go all the way
yeah, someday we’ll go all the way
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FOR GOD'S SAKE! JUST LET THEM WIN ALREADY. ISN'T 108 YEARS ENOUGH HUMILLIATION?
Everyone dated the demise of our neighborhood
From the suicide of the Lisbon girls.
People saw their clairvoyance
In the wiped-out elms and harsh sunlight.
Some thought the torture tearing the Lisbon girls
Pointed to a simple refusal to accept the world
As it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.
But the only thing we are certain of
After all these years, is the insufficiency of explanations.
Obviously doctor,
You've never been a thirteen year-old girl.
The Lisbon girls were thirteen,
Cecile, fourteen, Lux, fifteen, Bonnie, sixteen, Mary, and seventeen, Therese.
No one could understand how Mrs. Lisbon and Mr. Lisbon,
A math teacher, had produced such beautiful creatures.
From that time one, the Lisbon house began to change.
Almost every day, and even when she wasn't keeping an eye on Cecilia,
Lux would suntan on her towel wearing a swimsuit
That caused the knife-sharpener to give her a fifteen minute demonstration for free.
The only reliable boy who got to know Lux was Trip Fontaine
For only 18 months before the suicides had emerged from baby fat
To the delight of girls and mothers alike.
But few anticipated it would be so drastic.
The girls were pulled out of school,
And Mrs. Lisbon shut the house for maximum security isolation.
The girls' only contact to the outside world
Was through the catalogs they ordered
That started to fill the Lisbon's mailbox
With pictures of high-end fashions and brochures for exotic vacations.
Unable to go anywhere, the girls traveled in their imaginations
To gold-tipped Siamese temples or past an old man,
The leaf broom tidying the Maw's carpeted speck of Japan ?
And Cecelia hadn't died.
She was a bride in Calcutta
Collecting everything we could of theirs,
We couldn't get the Lisbon girls out of our minds,
But they were slipping away.
The colors of their eyes were fading,
Along with exact locations of moles and dimples.
From five, they had become four,
And they were all (the living and the dead), become shadows.
We would have lost them completely if the girls hadn't contacted us.
Lux was the last to go.
Fleeing from the house, we forgot to stop at the garage.
After the suicide free-for-all,
Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon gave up any attempt to lead a normal life.
They had Mr. Henry pack up the house,
Selling what furniture he could at a garage sale.
Everyone went just to look.
Our parents did not buy used furniture,
And they certainly didn't buy furniture tainted by death.
We of course took the family photos that were put out with the trash.
Mr. Lisbon put the house on the market,
And it was sold to a young couple from Boston.
It didn't matter in the end how old they had been,
Or that they were girls.
But only that we had loved them,
And that they hadn't heard us call, still did not hear us.
Calling out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time,
Alone in suicide.
Which is deeper than death,
And where we will never find the pieced to put them back together.