"Wide Open Spaces" by Dixie Chicks (Susan Gibson)

1st Verse

Who doesn't know what I'm talking about
Who's never left home, who's never struck out
To find a dream and a life of their own
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone

Many precede and many will follow
A young girl's dreams no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out West
But what it holds for her she hasn't yet guessed
She needs...

Chorus

Wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes
(She knows the high stakes)

2nd Verse

She traveled this road as a child
Wide-eyed and grinning she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test
She needs...

(Repeat Chorus)

3rd Verse

As her folks drive away her Dad yells, "Check the oil!"
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm a leavin' my girl."
She said, "It didn't seem like I left long ago"
When she stood there and let her own folks know
She needed...

(Repeat Chorus)

She knows the high stakes
She knows the high stakes
She knows the high stakes

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