National Parks - Big Ups

She was in the hospital

Waiting on the patients

Didn’t have to twist her arm

No such things as leisure

Trying to break a fever

Blood sprays from the arm

She takes a walk

To pass the time

She walks alone

'Cause she’s all alone

Because she’s all alone

She takes a walk

Where trees are lined

She walks alone

'Cause she’s all alone

We left her alone

She dips her fingers into the slip

Hands form as the wheel spins

Making time out of clay

The phone rings through the house

Calling on the landline

And the cabinets are filled with clay

She takes a walk

To pass the time

She walks alone

'Cause she’s all alone

Because she’s all alone

She takes a walk

Where trees are lined

She walks alone

'Cause she’s all alone

Because she’s all alone

'Cause she’s all alone

We left her alone

We got on a plane

And flew across the country

And saw the biggest trees

Bigger than the ones that lined her streets

Bigger than she’d ever seen

Bigger than one could think to exist

I think I saw her say to herself

«This is everything I’ve missed»

I saw a glow in her eye

Reflecting off the mountain’s peak

And that wavelength of light

I hadn’t seen it in a long time

It was a beacon, a guide

Showing the path out from the night

Into another start

Where the spaces weren’t so far

She’ll drive through national parks

With her life inside the car

And when the phone rings

It won’t be people selling things

I’ll be the one on the line

Cutting bricks of clay with twine

And building the bridge

To share in her happiness