Merle Haggard - The Race Is On lyrics

I feel tears wellin' up Cold and deep inside Like my heart's sprung a big break And a stab of loneliness sharp and painful That I may never shake You might say that I was takin' it hard Oh, she wrote me off with a call But don't you wager that I'll hide the sorrow When I may break right down and bawl Well, the race is on And here comes pride up the backstretch Heartaches are goin' to the inside My tears are holdin' back They're tryin' not to fall My heart's out of the runnin' True love's scratched for another's sake The race is on and it looks like heartache And the winner loses all One day I ventured in love Never once suspectin' What the final result would be How I lived in fear of wakin' up each mornin' Findin' that you're gone from me There's ache and pain in my heart For today was the one I hated to face Somebody new came up to win her I wound up in second place Well, the race is on And here comes pride up the backstretch Heartaches are goin' to the inside My tears are holdin' back They're tryin' not to fall My heart's out of the runnin' True love's scratched for another's sake The race is on and it looks like heartache And the winner loses all