Price To Pay Lyrics - Four - Blues Traveler

Standing here with a tale to tell 

I might as well tell to you 

Nothing near Wagnerian 

As Terminator Two 

It's an old one about a little dirt farm girl 

Who wanted to get out for good 

She would do anything to keep that dream 

She would do anything she could 

Who was she to feel so free 

With her heart on her sleeve 

She just couldn't believe 

There was a price to pay 

Her very first chance to escape that year 

Came when the circus had come to town 

She wound up in bed and quite madly in love 

With some rubber nose juggling clown 

He promised he'd return for her come next spring 

And he swore that he wouldn't forget 

So needless to say come the following May 

More than her appetite was getting wet 

She proceeded unheeded and quite undefeated 

To the trailer behind the tents 

And her heart began to soar at his trailer door 

She was gonna go wherever he went 

Who was she to feel so free 

With her heart on her sleeve 

She just couldn't believe 

There was a price to pay 

He arrived at last at about half past 

With a girl under every arm 

But all of this in itself could have been innocent as hell 

But what began to cause her alarm 

Was when he locked the door behind him like she'd always been 

She was standing alone in the dirt 

And her eyes were so dry that she began to cry 

And something began to hurt 

She wanted to tear the hair out of her head, yeah 

Yeah, she wanted to wish that she was dead 

But a voice in her just would not let her drop, yeah 

And her heart began to break but it didn't stop 

"Run all your races but don't you fear 

You and I are getting out of here 

And we'll survive that I guarantee 

'Cause you don't need much when all you have is me" 

She listened to the little voice in her 

And then she hit the road 

Free at last and with just a tiny scar 

And finally on her own 

No one knows what became of her 

All we know is she got away 

And though there really ain't no guarantees down here 

I like to think she did okay 

Who was she to feel so free 

With her heart on her sleeve 

She just wouldn't believe 

And that there's a price to pay 

That there's a price to pay 

Yeah, that there's a price to pay 

That there's a price to pay