The Race Is On (Live at RFK Stadium, Washington, DC, 6/10/73)

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
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
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
They try not to fall

My heart's out 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
Somebody else came out to win her
Put me out in second place

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 out of the running
True love scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all

Now the race is on and here comes pride up the back stretch
Heartaches a going to the inside
My tears are holding back
Tryin' not to fall

My heart's out of the running
True love scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all

Now the race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all