The Optimist - Written and recorded 2009

Gold quivers upon the road
 And I am going to find it
 On a mission, I'm not a joke
 I am going to find it
 And they laugh
 They laugh behind my back
 I reflect on the meaning of time
 Later it will come catch me
 Attend our lessons and recognized
 Oh, man, I'm trying to learn it
 But I run
 I run here alone
 Why can't I just be like them?
 Why can't this be like them tonight?
 People speak [?]
 As fast escape and I'm feeling as a fool
 People glare and my hair looks fine
 Apparently I got it
 Measure and man a self taught divined
 But here I'm occupied, crawling
 In the dust
 The dust got in my heart
 But gold quivers upon the road
 And I am going to find it
 But there was no mission, I am now a joke
 And still I'm trying to find it
 And they laugh
 They laugh behind my back
 Why can't I just be like them?
 Why can't this be like them tonight?
 But hope's a pearl and I am meaning well
 To make the later the beginning of my life