[Verse 1] I studied maps for weeks before Tracing ridges with my thumb North of Boise, past the turns Past where the pavement comes undone I thought about a plane that day Following darkness through the sky Instead I packed the truck alone And drove toward a line in time [Verse 2] The gravel climbed through sage and stone The valley opening below Cars were stacked for miles behind Waiting where the crowds would go But I found a hill no one had claimed Wind and sunlight, grass and pine Just enough height to see it coming When it crossed the county line [Pre-Chorus] I knew the hour I knew the cause Moon and sun and earth aligned I knew the maps I knew the math Still, I had come to see it with my eyes [Chorus] I watched the shadow running Across the fields below Crossing rivers, climbing ridges Moving faster than I know It found the hill I stood upon The hill I’d chosen all that way Then day became another thing For a handful of borrowed minutes Before it slipped away [Verse 3] A jet moved slowly overhead Keeping pace with what it could The light went strange upon the land Like daylight made of different wood Then everything grew quiet Not silence made by human hands The birds stopped first Then all the rest As darkness crossed the land [Pre-Chorus] I knew the path I knew the why I’d read about it for years But standing there And seeing it Were separated by a universe [Chorus] I watched the shadow running Across the fields below Crossing rivers, climbing ridges Moving faster than I know It found the hill I stood upon The hill I’d chosen all that way Then day became another thing For a handful of borrowed minutes Before it slipped away [Bridge] Millions of years of motion To draw that line across the earth Millions of years And somehow still It felt impossible at first Not because I didn’t know But because I did And knowing wasn’t large enough To hold what happened then [Final Chorus] I watched the shadow running Across the fields below Crossing rivers, climbing ridges Moving faster than I know It found the hill I stood upon The hill I’d chosen all that way And when the light came back again The world was just the world But I was not the same [Outro] The road back down was crowded The hill was empty once again I folded up the map And drove Already waiting for the next
