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You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take |
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You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks |
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Out on to an open road you ride until the day |
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You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay |
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Now with their hands held high, they reached out for the open skies |
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And in one last breath they built the roads they'd ride to their death |
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Driving on through the night, unable to break away |
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From the restless pull of the price you pay |
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CHORUS |
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Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay |
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Now you can't walk away from the price you pay |
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Now they'd come so far and they'd waited so long |
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Just to end up caught in a dream where everything goes wrong |
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Where the dark of night holds back the light of day |
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And you've gotta stand and fight for the price you pay |
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CHORUS |
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Little girl down on the strand |
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With that pretty little baby in your hands |
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Do you remember the story of the promised land |
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How he crossed the desert sands |
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And could not enter the chosen land |
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On the banks of the river he stayed |
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To face the price you pay |
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So let the games start, you better run you little wild heart |
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You can run through all the nights and all the days |
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But just across the county line, a stranger passing through put up a sign |
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That counts the men fallen away to the price you pay, |
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and girl before the end of the day, |
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I'm gonna tear it down and throw it away |
