Who doesn't know what I'm talking about   Who's never left home, whos 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 highest stakes      She traveled this road as a child   Wideeyed 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 a big mistake   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 highest stakes,   She knows the highest stakes