the place where a ball would be

[[ Is it a song about baseball? A song for two voices. ]]

as much as the next man  (I like America)

but don't expect me (to sing that song)

as much as the next man  (I like America)

but it is only (a baseball game)

but it is only (a baseball game)

people in bleachers (variant A and variant B)

people in bleachers (throwing out the first fuck)

he can throw a ball (the ball is not the ball)

he can see a ball (there is no physical ball)

he can hit a ball (the ball is not the ball)

he can catch a ball (there is no physical ball)

he can judge a ball (the ball is not the ball)

he can wear (a uniform uniform)

he can wear  (a hat and a glove)

he can wear  (a cup and a helmet)

he can wear  (a mask and pads)

he can wear (spikesssss)

he can swing (whoosh - stand and wait)

he can swing (and hold...)

he can swing (crack - run out)

he can swing (thump - run in)

he can swing (hey, batter, batter)

there is no physical ball (till it bathes in the Jersey mud)

the ball is not the ball (till it's wet from the sweat of his brow)

there is no physical ball (till the ball meets the bat)

there is the ideal ball (till the ball takes the air)

then there is air (by Jesus), then there is air

there is the air between (the ball and the bat)

there is the air between (the ball and the grass)

there is the air between (the ball and the glove)

there is the air between (each man alive)

there is the ball (between the sun and the man)

he can wear a grin (a wide commercial smile)

he can wear a mustache (he could hang a cap upon)

he can wear a beard (a person could get lost in)

he can wear nothing (but the face his mother gave him)

he can conspire (old men will share)

he can signal (will share a secret)

he can steal (but not until)

he can run (he can run)

he can be (far from home)

he can be (coming home)

he can be (sliiiiding. sliiiiiding)

he can be (safe. safe. safe.)

he can be back and (back and forth) forth

he (back and forth) can be back and forth

he can be back (back and forth) and forth

he can be (back and forth) back and forth

he can (out!)

there is no clock (the end will come for all of us when it will come)

there is no horizon (there is only the wall)

there is the wall (and there is over the wall)

no one goes home (until it's done)

the ball is not the ball (the ball is not the ball)

there is no physical ball (the ball is not the ball)

there is the ideal ball (the ball is not the ball)

there is the ideal mud (the ball is not the ball)

there is the air between (each man alive)

he throws it this way (it flies and it falls)

he throws it this way (it rises on the air)

he throws it this way (it curls to the left)

he throws it this way (it curls to the right)

he throws it this way (it's there before it's there)

as much as the next man  (I like America)

but don't expect me (to sing that song)

as much as the next man  (I like America)

but it is only (a baseball game)

but it is only (a baseball game)