Optimist

Oh, so I'm told
There's a price you pay for waiting around
Inside this everyday town where nobody knows
What it's like outside, they never get out
Outside this everyday town
Where she grew up by a farm on the west side
She played with the boys, never cared what she dressed like
They all made jokes she was never impressed by, every night
She stared out at an empty horizon
Holding the pillow that she emptied her eyes in, oh

They don't understand what it feels like

And I don't understand what it feels like

Inside of the crowd with people who talk out the side of their mouth
I saw but I stayed blinded
I heard, but I stayed silent
We drank and got high in suburbia fields
Quick, pop a blue pill before somebody feels the emptiness

Take it in before everything changes
You and me, we're both from different places
Hurts to know the same place that I keep my innocence
Is where you'd keep your secrets

'Cause they don't understand what it feels like
Uh, to be here, but not at home
Uh, you don't feel like you belong
But I swear you're not alone

'Cause I can't understand what that feels like