Price To Pay Lyrics

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