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I feel tears wellin' up, cold and deep inside
Like my heart's sprung a big break
And the stab of loneliness, sharp and painful
That I may never shake
But you might say that I was taking it hard
Since she wrote me off with a call
But don't you wager that I'll hide the sorrow
When I may lay right down and bawl
Now, the race is on and here comes pride in the back stretch
Heartaches are going to the inside
My tears are holding back there and
I'm tryin' not to fall
My heart's out of the running
True love's 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 suspectin'
What the final results 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 wed her
And I came out in second place
So now the race is on and here comes pride in the back stretch
Heartaches are going to the inside
My tears are holding back there and
I'm tryin' not to fall
My heart's out of the running
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all
Like my heart's sprung a big break
And the stab of loneliness, sharp and painful
That I may never shake
But you might say that I was taking it hard
Since she wrote me off with a call
But don't you wager that I'll hide the sorrow
When I may lay right down and bawl
Heartaches are going to the inside
My tears are holding back there and
I'm tryin' not to fall
My heart's out of the running
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all
What the final results 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 wed her
And I came out in second place
Heartaches are going to the inside
My tears are holding back there and
I'm tryin' not to fall
My heart's out of the running
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all
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Submitted by
prettytraincrash On Sep 27, 2005
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"And the winner loses all"
Thats the only bit I do not understand, unless it speaking of a race where the winner is the most heartbroken. I think the rest of the song is self-explanitory. His wife/girlfriend just brokeup with him OR he has asked out a girl and she has declined. I like the second one better personally, as I can relate to it more xD
I always thought that this song was refraining to being in love with someone, who breaks it off and gets married with someone else, leaving him bittersweet. He's feeling terrible about losing her, and yet the race is on for another to get her heart. However, "the winner loses all" would mean that the person who married her became miserable. His heart is no longer in the race, because she dumped him.
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yep I think this song is about love. I think she left him cause he sings he came in second place and he is the winner that loses all. I think who she married made him miserable and that's why he is trying not to cry.