I try to keep your name
And still get rid of your face
I hate to be by myself
All locked away in this place
You turn me inside out
You turn me outside in
Around and upside down
A rollercoaster within

Pay the price of love
When he calls for you
You've got to
Pay the price of love
When he calls for you

I grab my big black book
And call the numbers I know
Something is melting this town
Like it was all made of snow
You turn me inside out
You turn me outside in
Around and up and down
The elevator within

Pay the price of love (ooh la la la)
When he calls for you
You've got to
Pay the price of love (ooh la la la)
When he calls for you

Spending the evening alone
With the 10 o'clock news
Looking at you through the holes
In the soles of my old brown shoes

Well I heard the story once before
And I know what the tears are for
That's a lie and I just can buy
You came for me so don't try

And I see another man in your eyes
Listen you're old enough to know you can live twice
Listen so I'm telling you just exectly what to do
'Cause you can have from me some advice
Pay the price

And if on another time or place
Another day, another face
I'm telling you babe it's all you know
That one of us should have to go

Listen I know you hate to see me cry
But I have to go and I tell you why
Without your love I can't go on
It's easy and it’s wrong

You and I, we lit the fire
We build it, baby, my desire
But now you say I overdo it
Be careful, baby, don't make me choose it

[CHORUS:]

Oh, always, oh, always gotta pay the price
Oughta hear who'd love for free
Gotta pay the price
Oh, pay the price for loving me, yeah

I need your love to be a man
But oh lord, honey, you don't understand, no
But both our lives have just begun
I just can't trade these two for one

[REPEAT CHORUS]

Ah, for love of me, yeah

[Solo - Eddie]

Oh, you and I, we lit the fire
We build it, baby, my desire
You want me to be your lover
Well, now you start to pay, there'll be no other

[REPEAT CHORUS 2x]

Ah, for love of me, yeah