When my friend Jordan

Moved back home from California

There were wildfires there

Swarming residential areas

And it was awful

People died

It looked like Hell finally arrived

But even Hell isn't quite as hot

As they advertise

I think I need to rest my eyes

I just need to rest my eyes

He said “LA is a strange place

People running around in a rat race

People working on their old face

While the planet turns up the heat”

I said, “That sounds kinda like fun

Maybe I wanna ride into the sun

I’ll place my faith in something dumb

And even do it blind"

Well I think I need to rest my eyes

Yeah, I just need to rest my eyes

Well don’t you miss the ocean?

He said, “Never once did I notice it"

I guess it’s hard to miss anything

That is still within your reach

But sometimes I'm looking at the sky

And I see an empty space inside

A reflection of the night

Inside my soul out on the beach

And that is when I'm thinking about him

Like I think about all of them

And I wonder if I’m going

To wherever they’ve arrived

You know it ain't as hard

To live without them

As it's hard to watch life just go on

But I think maybe

We’re like the ocean and its tides

And I think I need to rest my eyes

I just need to rest my eyes