Friday, October 3, 2008

Come on, Cubbies...

Ok, as I´m lamenting another year, here are the lyrics the singer for Pearl Jam wrote for Cubs fans a few weeks back (you can find this on youtube somewhere)...

"All the Way" by Eddie Vedder

Yeah, don’t let them say that it’s just a game
Well, I’ve seen other teams and it is never the same
When you go to Chicago, you’re blessed and you’re healed
The first time you walk into Wrigley Field
Heroes with pinstripes and heroes in blue
Give us the chance to feel like heroes do
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 heads tall as the underdogs
We are not fairweather, but farweather fans
Like brothers in arms, in the suites and the stands
There’s 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, we could never want more

Someday we’ll go all the way
Yeah, someday we’ll go all the way

Here’s to the men and the legends we’ve known
Giving 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, “oh, let’s play two”
I think he meant two hundred years
Playing at Wrigley, our diamond, our jewel
The home of our joy and our fears
Keeping traditions, and wishes anew
The place where our grandfathers’ fathers they grew
The spiritual feeling if I ever knew
And when the day comes for that last winning run
And I’m crying and covered with beer
I look to the sky and know I was right today

Someday we’ll go all the way
Yeah, someday we’ll go all the way...