2055 – Bruce Springsteen – The price you pay (1980)

Escrita por Bruce Springsteen, foi gravada entre março de 1979 e agosto de 1980 no Power Station Studios, em New York City e lançada no disco The River, o quinto da carreira de Bruce, em 17 de outubro de 1980. Foi produzida por Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau e Steven Van Zandt. É uma balada pop rock com letra e música com referencias à The Promised Land, do disco Darkness on the edge of town. Fala do preço que a desigualdade social e economica cobra das pessoas.. O narrador conta pra uma mulher jovem em uma praia sobre a história da terra prometida, onde os personagens cruzam o deserto e no final são enviados de volta e tem que viver com o preço que se paga. Bruce tocou guitarra de 6 e de 12 cordas, gaita e cantou. Roy Bttan tocou piano e fez backing vocals. Clarence Clemons tocou sax, percussão e fez backing vocals. Danny Federici tocou orgao. Steve Van Zandt tocou violão e guitarra, fez harmonias vocais e backing vocals. Max Weinberg tocou bateria.

A letra:

You make up your mind, you choose the chance 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 skies
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, oh, the price you pay
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay

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

Woah, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay

Hey, oh
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
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

A versão de Bruce Springsteen:

A versão de Emmylou Harris: