The Race Is On - Merle Haggard

作词：Don Rollins

作曲：Don Rollins

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