Bruce Springsteen - The Price You Pay (1980) Audio

Upon Request!! Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - The Price You Pay at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale NY on December 31/1980

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The Price You Pay

Well you make up your mind, you choose the change 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 stars
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, yeah, the price you pay
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay

Now some says forget the past, and some they say don't look back
But for every breath you take, well, you leave a track
And though it don't seem fair for every smile that breaks
A tear must fall somewhere, oh, the price you pay

Oh, the price you pay, yeah, the price you pay
Well you can't walk away from the price you pay

Now 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
Yeah 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

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• Bruce
• Springsteen
• E-Street
• Band
• The
• Price
• You
• Pay
• Nassau
• Coliseum
• Uniondale
• NY
• 1980

[markbrisenden]

Thanks as always. Wonderful, wonderful song.

[MsBrucejuice]

@markbrisenden Thanks to you too Mark!

[IMTheMagicRat]

killer vid will! thumbs up! clarence

[MsBrucejuice]

@IMTheMagicRat Thanks very much Clarence!

[B0zz3]

Ive heard that Ben Stiller was at this show.

[MsBrucejuice]

@B0zz3 I don't know, it was a great gig, I guess there were more well known people!

[jensfup]

I remember back in the mid-80's when I heard this song the first time and I thought it was so dark. But the older I get, the more I understand the song - the more I understand it, the more I like it. Young people never understand that every choice we make has a consequence somewhere or somehow and sometimes the price you pay for your choices may just be too much.

[bigwilly8804]

I uploaded the studio version, as i couldnt find it on youtube, it on my page

[1pbrodie]

@B0zz3 who cares? the real B.S. was there!

[johnny67448]

Excellent audio. I love the album version, Bruce's vocal is so heartfelt.