The Price You Pay

(Bruce Springsteen)



You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take

You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks

Out on through an open road you ride until the day

You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay.



Now with their hands held high

They reached out for the open skies

And then with their last breath

They built the roads they would ride to their deaths.



Driving on through the night unable to break away

From the restless pull of the price you pay

Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay

You can't walk away from the price you pay.



Now they've come so far

And they've waited so long

Just to end up caught in a dream

Where everything goes wrong.



Where the dark of night holds back the light of the day

And you gotta stand and fight for the price you pay

Oh the price you pay, oh, the price you pay

You can't walk away from the price you pay.



--- Instrumental ---



Little girl down on the strand

With that pretty little baby in your hands

Do you remember the story

Of the Promised Land.



How he crossed the desert sands

And could not enter the Chosen Land

On the banks of the river he stayed

To face the price you pay.



So let the games start

You better run you little wild heart

You can run through all the nights

and all the days.



But just across the county line a stranger passin' through put up a sign

That counts so many fallen away to the price you pay

Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay

You can't walk away from the price you pay.

Oh, the price you pay...