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 preceed 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 high stakes...
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 will take the test...
She needs...

Wide Open spaces...
Room to make her big mistakes...
She needs new faces...
She knows the high stakes...
She knows the high stakes...

As her folks drive away her Dad yell's, "Check the oil!"
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm a leavin' my girl."
She said, "It didn't seem like I left 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 high stakes
She knows the high stakes

She knows the high stakes...
She knows the high stakes...
She knows the high stakes...