- published: 17 Apr 2015
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The Dixie Chicks are an American country music band which has also successfully crossed over into other genres. The band is composed of founding members (and sisters) Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines. The band formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas and was originally composed of four women performing bluegrass and country music, busking and touring the bluegrass festival circuits and small venues for six years without attracting a major label. After the departure of one bandmate, the replacement of their lead singer, and a slight change in their repertoire, the Dixie Chicks soon achieved commercial success, beginning in 1998 with hit songs "There's Your Trouble" and "Wide Open Spaces".
During a London concert ten days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, lead vocalist Maines said, "we don't want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States [George W. Bush] is from Texas". The positive reaction to this statement from the British audience contrasted with the boycotts that ensued in the U.S., where "the band was assaulted by talk-show conservatives" while their albums were discarded in public protest.
No mistaking this time, no changing my mind
No walking away then begging to stay
No letting you go 'cause this time my heart knows
We're destined to win, I'm falling again
I'm falling again, right back where I've been
Trading heartbreak for love that I've missed
It's a gamble and I'll take the risk, I should've known
From the start what you'd do to my heart
We're destined to win, I'm falling again
No waiting to see, if it's right for me
No doubting your eyes, no watching you cry
No turning to run and no loving for fun
No holding it in, I'm falling again
So please, don't say you won't take me back again
Because time away won't be time better spent
I'm falling again, right back where I've been
Trading heartbreak for love that I've missed
It's a gamble and I'll take the risk, I should've known
From the start what you'd do to my heart
We're destined to win, I'm falling again
Should've known from the start
What you'd do to my heart