You always thought it was blood

But it was only red wine

And that just goes to prove

You're not the same girl at the same bar

Ordering the same drink at closing time

Your refrigerator magnets

I'm holding as evidence against you

And I'll present them to a jury of your peers

But for you that would be impossible to do

But the wide-open spaces

Turned out to be just wide

And to me that just proves that the here-and-now's

Where to practice being kind

Your bumper stickers

I bump into them every place I go to

But do you think that plagiarizing and abbreviating wisdom

Is what Jesus would do?

Giant teeth, and you flash your new smile

Trying to conceal but knowing all the while

That more than just your picture's on file

There are no small places, just small minds

And every word of wisdom you fail to catch

Somebody else will find

You think you're ageless and timeless

But the truth is that even your beauty will fade

But you've done it so well

And taught yourself to be so reckless

Or is that just what God made?

But the wide-open spaces

Turned out just to be wide

And to me that just proves that the here-and-now's

Where to practice being kind

Every memory of beauty

Battles each yardstick of time

And every second of every minute

Of every hour of every day

Brings you closer to the back of the line

But there are no small faces, just long lines

And every moment of life you waste

Becomes somebody else's time

And the wide-open spaces you thought were yours

I thought were mine

And the love that held us together

We lost somewhere along the climb