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