What are the lyrics to The Grand Optimist by City and Colour?

Answer 1

I fear I'll die from complications

Complications due to things that I've left undone

That all my debts will be left unpaid

Feel like a cripple without a cane

I'm like a jack of all trades

Who's a master of none

Then there's my father

He's always looking on the bright side

Saying things like:

"Son, life just ain't that hard"

He is the grand optimist

I am the world's poor pessimist

You give him burdens sometimes

And he will escape unscarred

(Ooooh)

I guess I take after my mother x2

I used to be quite resilient

Gained no strength from counting the beads on a rosary

But now the wound has begun to turn

Another lesson that will go unlearned

But this is not a cry for pity

Or for sympathy

(Ooooh)

I guess I take after my mother x4