you make up your mind you choose the chance you take you re riding 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 heads held high they reached out for the open sky and with their one last breath they knew the roads they would ride to their deaths 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 you can t walk away from the price you pay now they ve 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 the night holds back the light of the day and you got to stand and fight for the price you pay oh the price you pay oh the price you pay you can t walk away from the price you pay  little girl down on the strand with that pretty little baby in her 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 stays to face the price you pay so let the games start you better run your 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 so many fallen away to the price you pay oh the price you pay oh the price you pay you can t walk away from the price you pay oh the price you pay oh the price you pay you can t walk away from the price you pay