The Race Is On

(album: The Boys Are Back - 1989)

I feel tears welling up cold 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 taking it hard
since you wrote me off with a call
But don't you wager that I'll hide in sorrow
when I may lay right down and bawl

Now the race is on
and here comes pride in the backstretch
Heartaches going to the inside
My tears are holding back
They're trying not to fall
My hearts out of the running
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 suspecting what the final result would be
and how I lived in fear of waking up each morning
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
and I came out in second place

Now the race is on
and here comes pride in the backstretch
Heartaches going to the inside
My tears are holding back
They're trying not to fall
My hearts out of the running
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartache,
and the winner loses all