The Price You Pay

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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

Now with their hands held high,
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they reached out for the open skies
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And then with their last breath they built the roads
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They would ride to their deaths
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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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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 the day
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And you've gotta stand and fight for the price you pay
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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

G  O

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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,
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A stranger  passing through put up a sign
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That counts so many fallen away to the price you pay,
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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
        C#                     F#
Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
              C#         G#      F#                C#   F#   C#
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay

   From Emmylou Harris "Cimarron"
   Warner Brothers Records 1981
   Copyright Bruce Springsteen Music(ASCAP)