I feel tears wellin' up goin' deep inside like my heart's sprung a break

And a stab of loneliness so sharp and painful that I might ever shake

You might think I'm a takin' it hard oh she wrote me off with a call

Don't you wager that I'll hide the sorrow I may break right down and bawl

Well the race is on and here comes pride up the backstretch

Heartaches are going to the inside

My tears are holding back tryin' not to fall

My heart's out of the running true love scratched for another's sake

The race is on and it looks like heartaches and the winner loses all

[ steel - fiddle ]

One day I ventured in love never once suspectin' what the final result would be

I lived in fear of waking up each morning and findin' that you're gone from me

Achin' and pain in my heart for today was the one that I hated to face

Somebody new came up to win her I came out in second place

Well the race is on...

[ fiddle ]