The Race Is On - Loretta Lynn

Well, I feel tears wellin' up

Goin' deep inside like my heart’s sprung a big break

And a stab of loneliness sharp and painful

That I may never shake

Now you might say that I was takin' it hard

Since you wrote me off with a call

And don’t you wager that I’ll hide the sorrow

When I may break right down and bawl

Now the race is on

And here comes pride up the back stretch

Heartaches are going to the inside

My tears are holdin' back, they’re tryin' not to fall

My heart’s out of the runnin'

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 suspectin' what the final results would be

How I lived in fear of waking up each morning

And findin' that you’re gone from me

There’s achin' and pain in my heart

For today is the one that I hated to face

Somebody new came up to win him

And I came out in second place

Now the race is on

And here comes pride up the back stretch

Heartaches are going to the inside

My tears are holdin' back, they’re tryin' not to fall

My heart’s out of the runnin'

True love scratched for another’s sake

The race is on and it looks like heartaches

And the winner loses all