Who's never left home, who's never struck out

To find a dream and a life of their own

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

She needs wide ppen spaces

Room to make her big mistakes

She needs n-ew faces

She knows high stakes

She travelled 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 n-ew faces

She knows high stakes

She knows the high stakes