Eternal Optimist

from If You Lived Here You'd Be Home by Now by Qwerty Mick

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Weaned within a week but you know
Not to clean a wound with a power hose
So ya must harness this to beat the ego
Or you are doomed to grieve what will not close

But have you ever had better, man?
Yeah, have you ever had better, man?
Or do you wish you were a better man?
So you could find someone to halt your development

The pride of his life does not yet exist
But he’s forever the eternal optimist
He’s conditioned to value his existence
On love interest opinions or past sexual experience
And when the rest of the world is so perfect
His words reverberate
Within his vertebrae, they say:
“Why do I feel such a need to relate?”

Well it’s the same reason
Wounds can’t be cleaned with a power hose
But you no longer cross the road
Even when the green man says it’s safe to do so

But have you ever had better, man?
Yeah, have you ever had better, man?
Or do you wish you were a better man?
So you could find someone to halt your development

The pride of his life does not yet exist
But he’s forever the eternal optimist
He envisions a life lived different
In which he switched all his ambition for a social fulfilment
Cause when the rest of the world is so perfect
His words reverberate
Within his vertebrae, they say:
“Why do I feel such a need to relate?”

Well it’s the same reason
Wounds can’t be cleaned with a power hose
But you no longer cross the road
Even when the green man says it’s safe to do so
Cause you’re still embarrassed
What ever did hit
The eternal optimist?

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from If You Lived Here You'd Be Home by Now, released March 4, 2022
Written, recorded and produced by Qwerty Mick
Mixed by Zach Deering

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