Optimist's Ode Songtext
von Sam Hurwitz

=Rehearsal went well
I got there on time
I said my lines correctly
Went on with the big ol′ lie

The sun, it was out
Cast a line through the room
There's a smiling mask on my face
But I′m smiling too

And every day that goes by
A little more light fills the empty spaces in the trees
And every day I try
My best to get out of this
And I'm doing fine

The city was bright
With great striking swirls
A drop of molten moonshine
Laticifying lonely pearls


And as I stood on the beach
With a true smiling friend
There's no birthday, there′s no hat, there′s no party
There's no beginning, there′s no end

'Just every day that goes by
A little more light fills the empty spaces in the trees
And every day I try
My best to get out of this
And I′m doing fine

Been told I find silver linings
But it gets rather frustrating
To not know wide eyed optimism
From eternal suffering

But with that childlike grin
I'm here in the door
It got me out of bed
Maybe it′ll get me something more


But I keep writing in my journal
Who I'm gonna be
Keep searching for an answer in the way the people talk to me
I think if I keep going on that way
I'll lose sight of who I ought to be
I ought to be me
I ought to be me, I ought to be me
All the things I want to be
And all the things I am

(A little more light in the tower)
My pain, it ain′t gonna go away
(A little more light in the tower)
I think I′m here to stay

I find faith in setting suns
So I think I'm here to stay