A Cockeyed Optimist

[00:09.85] When the skies are bright canary yellow
[00:14.74] I forget every cloud I've ever seen
[00:19.20] So they called me a cockeyed optimist
[00:23.90] Immature and incurably green
[00:28.93] I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
[00:33.58] That we're done and we might as well be dead
[00:38.06] But I'm only a cockeyed optimist
[00:42.33] And I can't get it into my head
[00:48.12] I hear the human race
[00:50.53] Is fallin' on its face
[00:53.10] And hasn't very far to go
[00:57.88] But ev'ry whippoorwill
[01:00.35] Is sellin' me a bill
[01:02.44] And tellin' me it just ain't so
[01:07.22] I could say life is just a bowl of Jello
[01:12.06] And appear more intelligent and smart
[01:17.00] But I'm stuck like a dope
[01:19.19] With a thing called hope
[01:21.76] And I can't get it out of my heart
[01:27.88] Not this heart
[01:34.68]
[02:15.34] I hear the human race
[02:17.28] Is fallin' on its face
[02:19.82] And hasn't very far to go
[02:24.56] But ev'ry whippoorwill
[02:26.96] Is sellin' me a bill
[02:29.31] And tellin' me it just ain't so
[02:33.85] I could say life is just a bowl of Jello
[02:38.56] And appear more intelligent and smart
[02:43.64] But I'm stuck like a dope
[02:45.48] With a thing called hope
[02:48.35] And I can't get it out of my heart
[02:54.10] Not this heart
[03:01.02]