Lyrics
[verse]
She loaded up the truck at seventeen
Waved goodbye to everything she'd seen
Her mama cried but let her drive away
Knowing she couldn't ask her girl to stay
There's a hunger only distance heals
A kind of hope that only highway feels
[chorus]
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
Not a corner of a small town life
Not a map somebody else could trace
She needs wide open spaces
A little faith and gasoline
And whatever this road becomes
She'll find out what it means
[verse]
Some nights the radio's her only friend
Static whispers around every bend
She calls back home just to hear the sound
Of a voice that knew her before this town
But she can't turn back, not yet, not now
She's still learning who she'll be somehow
[chorus]
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
Not a corner of a small town life
Not a map somebody else could trace
She needs wide open spaces
A little faith and gasoline
And whatever this road becomes
She'll find out what it means
[bridge]
Someday she'll look back and understand
Every mile was teaching her to stand
On her own two feet beneath a bigger sky
Learning how to live and how to fly
[chorus]
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
Not a corner of a small town life
Not a map somebody else could trace
She needs wide open spaces
A little faith and gasoline
And whatever this road becomes
She'll find out what it means