(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