A Cock-Eyed Optimist (Original Mix)-Lena Horne

[ti:A Cock-Eyed Optimist] [ar:Lena Horne] [al:Top 50: Lena Horne] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Cock-Eyed Optimist (Original Mix) - Lena Horne [00:06.67]When the sky is a bright canary yellow [00:13.14] [00:14.27]I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen [00:20.27] [00:21.57]So they called me a cockeyed optimist [00:27.58] [00:29.04]I'm mature and incurably green [00:36.02]I have heard people rant [00:39.27]And rave and bellow [00:43.01] [00:43.71]That we're done and [00:45.88]We might as well be dead [00:48.81] [00:51.07]But I'm only a cockeyed optimist [00:56.70] [00:58.42]And I can't get it into my head [01:05.01] [01:05.86]I hear the human race [01:08.79] [01:09.51]Is fallin' on its face [01:13.24]And hasn't very far to go [01:19.54] [01:20.36]But ev'ry whippoor will [01:24.22]Is sellin' me a bill [01:27.96]And tellin' me it just ain't so [01:34.91]I could say life is [01:38.08]Just a bowl of Jello [01:41.96] [01:42.94]And appear more intelligent and smart [01:49.29] [01:50.45]But I'm stuck like a dope [01:54.03]With a thing called hope [01:57.65]And I can't get it out of my heart [02:05.16]No Not this heart [02:12.11] [02:12.88]I hear the human race [02:15.63] [02:16.66]Is fallin' on its face [02:19.57] [02:20.25]And hasn't very far to go [02:26.57] [02:27.42]But ev'ry whippoor will [02:31.31]Is sellin' me a bill [02:34.93]And tellin' me it just ain't so [02:42.07]I could say life is [02:45.50]Just a bowl of Jello [02:49.22] [02:49.87]And appear more intelligent and smart [02:56.86]But I'm stuck like a dope [03:01.04]With a thing called hope [03:04.69]And I can't get it out of my heart [03:12.38]No Not this heart