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 

Now 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 

Now you can't walk away from the price you pay 



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 

Now you can't walk away from the price you pay 



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

Now you can't walk away from the price you pay