(verse 1) 
D5                                     G5  
You make up your mind  you choose the chance you take, 
                      D5                    A5  
You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks, 
             D5                  G5  
Out on to an open road you ride until the day, 
             D5              A5        D5  
You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay, 
 
(verse 2) 
D5                                                         
Now with their hands held high,  
                         G5  
They reached out for the open skies, 
               D5                    
And then with their last breath they built the roads, 
           A5  
They would ride to their deaths, 
            D5                            G5  
Driving on through the night, unable to  break away, 
         D5             A5      G5    
From the restless pull of the price you pay, 
 

        D5                      G5  
Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay 
              D5          A5       D5          G5  
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) 
        D5                      G5  
Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay, 
              D5          A5       D5          G5  
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay, 
 
(bridge) 
D5  
Little girl down on the strand, 
                             G5  
With that pretty little baby in your hands, 
       D5                          A5   
Do you remember the story of the promised land, 
                    D5  
How he crossed the desert sands, 
                        G5  
And could not enter the chosen land, 
                    D5  
On the banks of the river he stayed, 
A5           D5  
To face the price you pay, 
 
(verse 4) 
D5                                                  G5   
So let the games start, you better run you little wild heart 
        D5                                      A5  
You can run through all the nights and all the days 
                    D5                  
But just across the county line, 
                             G5  
A stranger  passing through put up a sign 
                    D5           A5      G5  
That counts so many fallen away to the price you pay,  
 
(ending chorus) 
        D5                      G5  
Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay 
              D5          A5       G5  
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay 
        D5                      G5  
Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay 
              D5          A5       G5          D5    G5    D5  
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay