The Race Is On - Grateful Dead

I feel tears welling up from down deep inside

Like my heart’s got a big break

And a stab of loneliness sharp and painful that i may never shake

You might think that i’m taking it hard since you broke me off with a call

You might wager that i’ll hide in sorrow and i might lay right down and bawl

Now the race is on and here comes pride up the back stretch

Heartaches a going to the inside, my tears are holding back, trying not to fall

My heart’s our of the running, 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 suspecting

What the final result would be

Now i live in fear of waking up each morning

And finding that you’re gone from me

There’s an aching pain in my heart for the name of the one that i hated to face

Someone else came out to win her, and i came out in second place