The Grand Optimist Tab by City and Colour

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I fear I'm dying from complications

Com plications 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

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Then there's my

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father

He's always looking on the bright side

Sayin' 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

And he will escape unscarred

I guess I take after my mother

I guess I take after my mother

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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