Lyric discussion by Rupert Pumpkin 

I heard Paul say in an interview that "The cross is in the ball park" was a line he come up with while the Pope was doing Mass at Yankee Stadium on TV.

I heard that too. Bank it. I'll always think of any ballpark as a sacred place (especially to a kid), so I love the origin of this line! To Paul I think it punctuates this string of youthful memories triggered by a road sign, on to the girl when he was young, and then the indelible memory of the Mass in Yankee Stadium.

I think the father in the song is on his deathbed and the road sign is probably a Dead End sign.

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