Wide Open Spaces

This song plays in my mind when I feel my world has just opened up.

My love of nature, broad views of life, open mindedness, my heart; the full open parts as well as the broken & protected parts, new opportunities, new places & all-encompassing Universal truths.

But when I most hear this song in my head & it's meanings or the feeling I get, it's when I come upon big open landscapes & especially where I live in the mountainous regions of Arizona. The mountains, the foothills & the layers of rock & rolling hills. Then there's the sky with enormous fluffy clouds that cast shadows across the land & you just can't see that unless you have.....

Wide Open Spaces

~ Dixie Chicks

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 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

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