A Cockeyed Optimist Lyrics

When the sky is a bright canary yellow
I forget every cloud I′ve ever seen
So they call me a cockeyed optimist
Immature and incurably green

I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
That we're done and we might as well be dead
But I′m only a cockeyed optimist
And I can't get it into my head

I hear the human race is falling on its face
And hasn't very far to go
But every whippoorwill is selling me a bill
And telling me it just ain′t so

Now I could say life is just a bowl of Jell-O
And appear more intelligent and smart
But I′m stuck like a goat with a thing called hope
And I can't, no I won′t get it out of my heart
No, it hurts