The River

Relaesed: 10.Oct.1980

THE PRICE YOU PAY

Lyrics By 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 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'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 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 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 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