I know it is past the dead line for extra credit for the song lyrics, but I heard this song today that I had not heard in years. "Wide Open Spaces" by the Dixi Chicks reminds me of myself when I left for college this year. This song is about a girl leaving her parents and going out on her own. Growing up, my family and I came to Fort Worth many times a year to visit family, for my softball tournaments, and several other reasons. Fort Worth always intregued me. A few years ago, when I thought about where I would go to college, I never even thought of Fort Worth.
I have always been very independent (I guess every since I was 4 years old, when I had been taking dance classes for 3 months at my montesoury school without my parents knowing. I wanted to dance, and I so I did it myself!) I have always made my own mistakes and learned from them (Sometimes this is a downfall, but I believe I would not be as strong as I am if I did not live like this). As the girl in this song, I felt I had to come west and make a life of my own. It would take me hours to describe how well this song relates to me, but this is one of the songs that touches me th most.
"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
She needs wide open spaces Room to make her big mistakes She needs new faces She knows the high stakes
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I love this song too! It really is a great song to make you want to go and get out of wherever you are. It makes me want to go out to the country and just sit, maybe under a tree or something. Just Kidding. but I do like the Dixie Chicks. They are still getting criticized for what they said overseas about Bush. I think it has let up some because you are starting to hear their music more then we used to. The radio stations had just stopped playing them. It's a little cruel if you ask me. I wonder if this happened to any other bands in the past? and how did they deal with it. I remember a music video a couple of years ago that the Dixie Chicks did that talked about how they felt about the whole 'we hate Dixie Chicks' thing. They we covering themselves sin black paint, I think. Pretty cool symbolism. Music videos can be great in that way because they can show you exactly what they were thinking at the time. Or a music video can scare you to death like chances video with the creepy stuff going on. lol!
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