The Optimist - Jorn

Some people sleep away this life

Dream away all the pain and lie

Playing safe in a lullaby behind their fences

Some people like to roll the dice

Live the risk to lose the fight

Gambling with no alibis

And close their eyes to consequences

What’s up with those killing wars?

Hasn’t there been enough before?

Do all the dead get to paradise

Or will the afterlife just go under

And will the answers ever show… oh

How far to the top of the mountain

I’m standing strong on a ledge of the dream

Cloudbusting pushing weight off my shoulders

Cause I long to feel the sun again

Ooh… the optimist climbs my friend

Gonna rise till the end… ooh

Some people lay awake at night

Longing in the dead of light

Crying for the sacrifice and their long lost chances

Some people always raise their glass

Never worry if their life has gone astray

Cold indifferent eyes and false pretenses

See the boy on his bloody knees

Crying hard from the pain he bleeds

Maybe never gonna live to grow his senses

How can we save his heart with hope

I’m raining love from the core of my fountain

I let it run for the rainbow within

I’m dream catching in a world getting colder

Cause I’ve got to feel the sun my friend

Ooh… the optimist tries again

And never dies before the end

How far to the top of the mountain

Standing strong on the ledge of a dream

Cloudbusting pushing weight off my shoulders

Cause I long to see the sun again

The optimist climbs my friend

Gonna climb till the end