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by Dixie Chicks


Wide open spaces

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Who doesn't know what I'm talking About
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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
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Many precede and many will follow
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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 ppen spaces
                     
Room to make her big mistakes
                 
She needs n-ew  faces
                    
She knows high stakes
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She travelled this road as a child
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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 wide open spaces
                     
Room to make her big mistakes
                 
She needs n-ew  faces
                  
She knows high stakes
                        
She knows the high stakes

solo

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As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check The Oil!"
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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 needs wide open spaces
                     
Room to make her big mistakes
                 
She needs n-ew  faces
                  
She knows high stakes
                        
She knows the high stakes