The Great Optimist chords by
Paul Dempsey

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Intro 1

F#m

Verse 1
F#m F#m 2
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Y'know you did everything right
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F#m F#m 2
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Tried to be dependable everytime,
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Em Em 
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So it's hard - to understand why
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You're the one who should find
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- it harder to sleep at night

Verse 2
F#m F#m 2
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And get needled by the thought
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That you may have been
F#m F#m 2
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mistaken all along,
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While you wait - wait and wait for a call
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D D 
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But the phone it doesn't cry from it's
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A A 
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cradle at all

Interlude 1

Verse 3
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Bm Bm 2
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It would be something if
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Bm Bm 2
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F# F# 2
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If somehow after this
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You could still call your
Gm Gm 3
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G G 
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self - the great optimist
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So you find somewhere
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A A 
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to be
Where you don't feel you're
F#m F#m 2
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caught between
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And where you won't get crushed
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by the counterweight
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That's gonna buckle under the strain
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of all your disbe lief
And light comes through
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the leaves
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Like bandits shooting at your feet
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And indeed,
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there's honour among thieves
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And the good guys always win the
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G G 
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day eventually
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Verse 4
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D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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It would be something if
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Bm Bm 2
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F# F# 2
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F#m F#m 2
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If somehow after this
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Bm Bm 2
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Gm Gm 3
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D D 
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G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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F# F# 2
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Em Em 
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Bm Bm 2
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You could still call yourself
Gm Gm 3
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- the great optimist

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