Check Your Optimism

C Bb F (2x) C Bb Here's another song that doesn't matter F Something to play amongst the chatter C In the background expectations for quality are much lower Bb Heard you didn't like the lyrics F Truth be told it's nice to hear it Got no one left to impress C So stupid stuff isn't off-limits Bb Glad to play to some more crickets F Guess that's just the family business C You navigate your way through trepidatious states of populated chickens Bb Thinking, "this isn't really it, is it?" F Begging the farmer for forgiveness Oh, I'm not who you were missing? C Oh, you thought that I'd be different? Bb And if it's you that wants a promise F That life will hand you some good lemons To make your stand and make a profit C Better check your optimism Bb Better check those empty pockets F Trust in your postmodernism Study your map wrote in gossip C And me like I've been who you're missing Bb Never heard the voice of a generation so monotonous F I'm trying to be famous and I'm trying to be the opposite C Bb F I'm trying to stay nameless so that I can remain honest but Flowers gonna grow, maybe I should be a botanist C Bb F (2x) C Bb Free as a bird singing F You got me under your thumb C Bb I got my world spinning F So you can do what you want C Bb Free as a flea jumping F I got my eyes on the top C Bb I got my world turning F I'm gonna do what I want C Bb F Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na C Bb F Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na C Bb Do what you gotta do for another hit F Take a drag from a stranger's cigarette C Big tobacco's feeling outgrown and they could use your support Bb Cause you're not scared of dying young F You're gonna do just what you want C You heard ambition is contradicting to everything you think is fun C You're punching in a clock Bb Cause you ain't no boxer F Cumming in a sock Cause you ain't no father C Story of your life Bb But you ain't the author F Don't know what to do Better cut your losses C Bb F (2x) C Bb Free as a bird singing F You got me under your thumb C Bb I got my world spinning F So you can do what you want C Bb Free as a flea jumping F I got my eyes on the top C Bb I got my world turning F I'm gonna do what I want G F (4x) C