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Wide Open Spaces

from The Second Hand (2014) by Susan Gibson

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Written by Susan Gibson and recorded by The Dixie Chicks on their debut album "Wide Open Spaces" in 1998!

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WIDE OPEN SPACES

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

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

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

As she packs her things she feels she’s left something out
Her friends and her family her dog and this house
She turns around to find her old room bare
Looks at the U-Haul, it has to fit in there

As her folks drive away her dad yells, “check the oil!’
Mom stares out the window and says, “I’m leaving my girl”
She said it didn’t seem like that long ago
When she stood there and watched her own folks go

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

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from The Second Hand (2014), released March 22, 2014

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