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 wide
open spaces
Room to make
her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the
highest stakes
She travelled 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
highest stakes
She knows
the highest 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 said
"It didn't seem like
that long ago"
When she stood
there and let her
own folks know
She needed
wide open spaces
Room to make
her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the
highest stakes
She knows
the high stakes
She knows
the highest stakes...
She knows the
highest stakes
She knows the
highest stakes...