Bruce Springsteen - The Price You Pay lyrics

You make up your mind
You choose the chance you take
You ride to where the highway
Ends and the desert breaks
Out on to 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 in one last breath
They built the roads they'd
Ride to their death
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 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've 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 game 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 passing through put up a sign
That counts the men fallen away
To the price you pay
And girl, before the end of the day
I'm gonna tear it down and throw it away