About The Song
Falling in love is one of the best feelings in the world. It makes you feel important, and everything is beautiful. Love should be like that. It isn’t supposed to hurt or make us suffer. However, like all things, love doesn’t last forever. Sometimes it has to go away and find another. Some are lucky to have found love and lasts forever, but for some, they have to go out and keep searching for it until they find it.
George Jones “The Race Is On” is not only a country hit song. The song also became a pop hit song when it was covered by another artist. George Jones’ version of this song was recorded for his album The Race Is On, in 1964. His song “The Race Is On” entered the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart at No. 3. In addition, the song landed at No. 96 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
“The Race Is On” is a song about a man whose relationship with the woman he loves ended. He feels like he loses the race when she leaves him. In the third stanza of the song, the narrator mentions that his ex-lover has found someone new and it made him feel like he lost the game. It made him feel that he only won second place because she does not love him anymore. His fear that one day love will walk away happened, it is killing him.
Some people find love, and it lasts forever, but for some who thought that it would last forever usually loses it. However, losing it doesn’t mean you lose the game, it’s just that you have to keep looking for the right person to love.
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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
Now, you might say that I was takin’ it hard
Since you 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
Now 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’
And 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
And I came out in second place
Now 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 heartaches
And the winner loses all