Twas the Night Before....

Recently, while driving in my little bug back home, this song came over the radio. I now consider it the soundtrack to my summer. While I know I'll be back home soon, I realize I will have changed, grown, and found a better understanding of who I really am.
So here are the lyrics and a youtube link to "the soundtrack of my summer." I hope you enjoy......

"Wide Open Spaces" by The Dixie Chicks

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dom7VlltBUc)

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      (or in my case, down south)
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!"    (already did before I left...and replaced 2 tires)
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

[Repeat Chorus]
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes