George Jones & 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
So she wrote me off with a call
But don't you wager that I'll ride all sorrow
When I break right down and bawl

Now the race is on
And here comes pride up the backstretch
Heartaches are goin' to the inside
My tears are holdin' back, 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 heartaches
The winner loses all

One day I ventured in love, never once suspectin'

What the final results would be
Now I've lived in fear of wakin' up each mornin'
Finding that you're gone from me

There's ache 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

Oh, the race is on
And here comes pride up the backstretch
Heartaches are goin' to the inside
My tears are holdin' back, 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 heartaches
The winner loses all