Wide Open Spaces

I kind of like Dixie Chicks. Laugh all you want, but at least I know why i love them.
They have a spunk of a lady, not necessarily that of emanates pop version, but of country...but their songs speak of the heart and the angst of being a woman, and not just the glamor side of it.
Well, apparently I'm not in any mood to exert too much analysis as I might break down...

Nursing a broken heart and struggling spirit, this song is me...as of the moment.
I need to get out. I have to leave everything behind. I know I've grown out of the same places and same faces.

It's sad to think that I don't belong here anymore....


"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

[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 said, "It didn't seem like that long ago"
When she stood there and let her own folks know

[Repeat Chorus]
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes