[Being Outdoors]

Y'all wanna hear another story, or shall we just play some shit?

I'll tell ya, I'll tell you one more

I'll tell you this one more, this is like a ghost story, man, this and this, it happened a few years ago

Uh, I remember, when it started, you know, like, if you see this

This is, like, 15 bucks worth of clothes from a thrift store, right

And when you're young and you buy clothes like this, you kind of look like you're in a group, you know

But when you're older and you buy clothes like this, sometimes you come off as outdoors, you know what I mean?

Do you know what I mean?

That's what they used to call homeless, outdoors

More fitting, right?

Ha, and you know, a lot of times in the lobby of the hotel they will, I'll get singled out and they'll say

"Excuse me, sir, are you a guest with us here?"

Ha, ha. Then they say, "Can I see your key?"

That's true. And one time, I'm just thinking of these

Um, one time I was in Reno, Nevada, and they have this creek that runs through the middle of town

And all these great, flat rocks in the sun

So I walked down there and I fell asleep in the sun, next to the creek

And about, I don't know how long went by but when I came out

Um, when I woke up, it was this priest who was shaking me

He said, "Come on, wake up"

And I looked behind him and he had a couple of guys that kind of looked like me

But they weren't in bands, they was outdoors, hey

And uh, and he said, "Come on, we're getting lunch", you know

So, I didn't want to be that, you know, the dick

I didn't wanna be Mister, "I have a place", you know

So, uh, I went with them fuckin' guys

They got a sandwich, and an apple, and some chips

I love that town, man, ha, ha

But the funniest one, the whole reason why I started telling you this

Uh, was, just not very long ago, I was telling you earlier I went through a psychedelic drug phase, you know

And this guy, God rest his soul, Neil Kasow, he was living out in Ventura, California, right

And so I'm staying at the Pierpont Hotel, there

And I think I'm fine, shit, I mean, I'd probably been trippin' balls for a while but I'd been on the road, or whatever

I mean, I hadn't not been around anybody

But I go, this was the worst one, I go and I sit on the beach

And I'm just sitting there enjoying the sun

And this, like, pastor-looking guy

He didn't have one of these things but he had a bible, and he had a group of people with him

And he said, ha I swear, he said, "Sir, would it be okay if we pray for you?"

That stung a little, you know?

Ha, ha, I looked outdoors

Ha, so I said, "Fuck it, yeah", and you wanna know something funny?

I wasn't even sure if I believed it was really happening, you know?

I don't know if you've ever, like, taken acid for, like, a long chunk of time

But it starts to get debatable, everything starts to get debatable

So, I was, like, I wonder if this is fuckin' happening, I said, I said, "Knock yourself out, knock yourself out"

So, him and this group of people, he had on like a light blue golf t-shirt, I remember, and khaki pants

And him and his friends all held hands, they held hands in a circle around this poor old folk singer who was just minding his fucking business

And they, they got in a circle around me and the guy starts praying

Here's where, I swear this is true, it gets weird

There's this, like, little boardwalk, yeah, there's a little boardwalk and now here coming down the boardwalk is this man and his wife

And their little daughter is walking beside them

Only she looks like she's going to be in a play, right, to me

And I'm looking at them and I'm looking at this circle of people

And I look at the dad like, ah, you know, what do you want from me, you know?

And then I make eye contact with that girl

And in my mind I said, "I don't even know if these people around me are real"

And that girl said, "They're real"

And then she said, "But I'm not"

And look it up