National Parks Lyrics - Before A Million Universes - Big Ups

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 

She takes a walk to pass the time 

She walks alone because she's all alone 

She takes a walk where trees are lined 

Walks alone because 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 because she's all alone 

She takes a walk where trees are lined 

Walks alone because 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