(verse 1)
D G
You make up your mind you choose the chance you take,
D A
You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks,
D G
Out on to an open road you ride until the day,
D A D
You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay,
(verse 2)
D
Now with their hands held high,
G
They reached out for the open skies,
D
And then with their last breath they built the roads,
A
They would ride to their deaths,
D G
Driving on through the night, unable to break away,
D A G
From the restless pull of the price you pay,
D G
Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
D A D G
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay
(verse 3)
Now they'd come so far and they'd 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,
(chorus)
D G
Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay,
D A D G
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay,
(bridge)
D
Little girl down on the strand,
G
With that pretty little baby in your hands,
D A
Do you remember the story of the promised land,
D
How he crossed the desert sands,
G
And could not enter the chosen land,
D
On the banks of the river he stayed,
A D
To face the price you pay,
(verse 4)
D G
So let the games start, you better run you little wild heart
D A
You can run through all the nights and all the days
D
But just across the county line,
G
A stranger passing through put up a sign
D A G
That counts so many fallen away to the price you pay,
(ending chorus)
D G
Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
D A G
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay
D G
Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
D A G D G D
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay