Don't know about your younger years
You never seemed to let us in
But I saw you in that sepia photo
With a slick side part and an optimist's grin
Hmmm

cnd I know that the years were hard
Luck wasn't always on our side
But you would beg to disagree
Now perspective is a strength of mine

Why do you still believe?
When it could take everything
It's killing me to still believe
Is the optimist in you
The worst part about me?
Hmmm

Six strings and a heart of gold
The things you wanted me to have
Some 30 trips around the sun
cnd you're the first to still remind me that

I'm getting too old for this shit, I joke
So why the hell do I still try?
When I was young I broke my foot
You said fall 8 times and get up 9
Fall again, get up a million times

Why do you still believe?
When it could take everything
It's killing me to still believe
Is the optimist in you
The worst part about me?
Hmmm

I echo the optimist, I know that it is dangerous
I echo the optimist, I know that it is dangerous
I echo the optimist, I know that it is dangerous
I echo the optimist
Hmm

I know you had the worst of news
c few months before I came in
But you held your head up all this time
Hair gone gray with an optimist's grin

Why do you still believe?
When it could take everything
Because of you I still believe
Is the optimist in you
The thing that could save me?
Oh the optimist in you
Is the optimist in me
Hmmm

I echo the optimist, I know that it is dangerous
I echo the optimist, I know that it is dangerous
I echo the optimist, I know that it is dangerous
I echo the optimist
Hmm