The Grand Optimist Lyrics - Little Hell Ep - City And Colour

I fear I'm dying of complications 

Complications due to things 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 burdensome times 

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And he will escape unscarred 

I guess I take after my mother 

I guess I take after my mother 

I used to be quite resilient 

Gain no strength from counting the beads on a rosary 

And now the wound has begun to turn 

Another lesson that has gone unlearned 

But this is not a cry for pity or for sympathy 

I guess I take after my mother 

I guess I take after my mother 

I guess I take after my mother 

I guess I take after my mother