The Coast of Nevada

There used to be…

Well, a California

That’s where we were from

Initially

We’re water people

We like being by the water

Always have

‘S probably why I take such long showers

We were hoping you’d stay here with us in Nevada

If you’re interested in that

Personally, I think living by the coast

Would do, you know, anybody some good

Living by the ocean

Waking up every day to see a…

You know, it’s sort of like—

Well—freedom

I don’t know why, but—

Maybe it’s the explorer in me

I don’t know

I look out at all that water

And I try to imagine

Where everything used to be

The Hollywood sign

And the Golden Gate Bridge

And the redwoods

All the redwoods

None of it was that close together

But in my mind…

In my mind, in the middle of the ocean

The tops of the redwoods spring up

Bursting from the water’s surface

And it’s like an island of treetops

Just waiting for somebody to discover it

The world, you know, it’s…shrinking

But we don’t have to shrink with it

We all just need to get a little bit better at sharing

God ain’t making any more land

But people keep making people

And so you have to be willing to put your arm around the person next to you

And close in tight

Because…

Because nature is not on our side

Not that I blame her, but still.

We gotta be on our side, you know?

I don’t know how you screwed up

And I don’t want to know

People screw up and they pay for it

You’re paying for it right now

I can see that

You don’t change your ways

So one day you wake up

And you’re ten feet underwater

Remembering that you don’t know how to swim

But you’re here

You found the coast

Years ago, where we’re standing used to be a desert

And now it’s beach sand

And it’s still the same thing

But where it is has changed what it is

Does that make sense?

Wake up here a couple days

See a couple mornings

Drink coffee while you watch the waves

See if that does anything for you

It might

It might not

But it can’t hurt

Maybe you’ll spot those trees for me

And we can commandeer a ship

Head out like old-time travelers

Discovering new old terrain

The world is giving us new things to discover

Isn’t that something?

The one thing we’ll never run out of

Is possibility