National Parks

[Verse 1]

She was in the hospital

Waiting on the patients

Didn't have to twist her arm

No such thing as leisure

Trying to break a fever

And the blood sprays from the arm

[Chorus]

She takes a walk to pass the time

She walks alone because she's all alone

She takes a walk where trees are lined

She walks alone

Because she's all alone- we left her alone

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

She takes a walk to pass the time

She walks alone because she's all alone

She takes a walk where trees are lined

She walks alone because she's all alone- we left her alone

[Verse 3]

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