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Wide Open Spaces Lyrics
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 Dream No Longer Hollow
It Takes The Shape Of A Place Out West
But What It Holds For Her, She Hasn't Yet Guessed
Chorus:
She Needs Wide Open Spaces
Room To Make Her Big Mistakes
She Needs New Faces
She Knows The High Stakes
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
Repeat Chorus
She Knows The High Stakes
As Her Folks Drive Away, Her Dad Yells, "Check The Oil!"
Mom Stares Out The Window And Says, "I'm Leaving My Girl"
She Says, It Didn't Seem Like That Long Ago
When She Stood There And Let Her Own Folks Know
Repeat Chorus
She Knows The High Stakes
She Knows The High Stakes
She Knows The High Stakes
She Knows The High Stakes
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
A Young Girl's Dream 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 Wide Open Spaces
Room To Make Her Big Mistakes
She Needs New Faces
She Knows The High Stakes
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 Knows The High Stakes
Mom Stares Out The Window And Says, "I'm Leaving My Girl"
She Says, It Didn't Seem Like That Long Ago
When She Stood There And Let Her Own Folks Know
She Knows The High Stakes
She Knows The High Stakes
She Knows The High Stakes
She Knows The High Stakes
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Funny how this song hits me right now, at the time where I can chose what to do next after having finished school. Now, that I've already gone the first steps into a year of work and travel 20 000 km away from home. I guess that's what it's about. Leaving the places and people that you've been knowing your entire life, because you feel like you have to start living on your own. Maybe it's not only about seing new places, but also about experiencing how it's like to do everything completely yourself. Maybe that feeling of independence and the will not to fail, although sometimes we make a big mistake, are the things that are the main factors why we are leaving. I love this song for all that and am thankful that music alway seems to hit me at the right time.
@wideopenspaces BEAUTIFUL.
@wideopenspaces BEAUTIFUL.
I want my mom to hear this song and take note from it
i want to get married, move out west to a field in the middle of nowhere, build a house and live there forever making my life with someone i love....what a dream....hehehe
MeanLeanVanillaBean...its NOT garbage! how true this song is...it really sums up how i feel right now...and how many young girls will feel or are feeling...
i dunt get the point of the song!!!!!!!!!
How can u not get the point of this song?
It's about growing up and taking that step into independence from your parents.
I love this song...it's very sweet.
the meaning is pretty much spelled out for you...
Its pretty obvious what this song means, leaving home, and becoming independent :))