The Race Is On

I feel tears welling up cold and deep inside

Like my heart's sprung a big break

The stab of loneliness, sharp and painful

I might never shake

I guess you could say I've been taking it hard

Since she wrote me off with a call

Don't you wager that I'll hide my sorrows

When I may break right down and bawl

So the race is on

Here comes pride up the backstretch

Heartaches taking to the inside

My tears are holding back

And tryin' not to fall

My heart's out of the running

True love's 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 thinking

What the final results would be

Then I lived in fear of waking up each morning

And you'd be gone from me

There's an ache and pain in my heart

For today was the one that I hated to face

Somebody new came up to win her

And I came out in second place

So the race is on, here comes pride

Up the backstretch

Heartaches taking to the inside

My tears are holding back

But trying not to fall

My heart's out of the running

True love's scratched for another's sake

The race is on and it looks like heartaches

And the winner loses all