The Race Is On

I feel tears welling up from down deep inside

Like my heart's got a big break

And a stab of loneliness sharp

And painful that I may never shake



You might think that I'm taking it hard

Since you broke me off with a call

You might wager that I'll hide in sorrow

And I might lay right down and bawl



Now the race is on

And here comes pride up the back stretch

Heartaches a goin' to the inside

My tears are holding back, tryin' not to fall



My heart's our of the running

True love scratched for another's sake

The race is on and it looks like heartaches

And the winner loses all



One day I ventured in love, never once suspecting

What the final result would be

Now I live in fear of waking up each morning

And finding that you're gone from me



There's an aching pain in my heart

For the name of the one that I hated to face

Someone else came out to win her

And I came out in second place