Saturday, May 2, 2015

Jamie's College Graduation


WIDE OPEN SPACES
the 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 boy's dream no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out west
But what it holds for him, he hasn't yet guessed

He needs wide open spaces
Room to make the big mistakes
He needs new faces
He knows the high stakes

He traveled this road as a child
Wide eyed and grinning, he never tired
But now he won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, he'll take the test

He needs wide open spaces
Room to make the big mistakes
He needs new faces
He knows the high stakes.

As his folks drive away, his dad yells, "Check the oil!"
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leaving my boy"
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 the big mistakes
She needed new faces
She knows the high stakes