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Talking Optimist Blues
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Words and Music by Neil Diamond and Gretchen Peters
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I got worries by the ton; gettin' cancer's only one.
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Overtaxed and alimonied, tired of eatin' fried baloney.
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I got burdens on my shoulders, dying young or growin' older.
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There's some brain cells I'm missin',
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but despite it all, I'd like to say--
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I'm gonna have a good day today.
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Gonna have a good time anyway.
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Put it all behind me, lay it all away.
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Gonna be a good day today.
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Bills and pills and former wives,
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Past mistakes and former lives.
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Bank account is overdrawn,
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out of Prozac, hairline's gone.
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Hearing voices in my head;
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say I should've stayed in bed.
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Dog just died, but what the heck;
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nothing worse can happen anyway.
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So, I'm gonna have a good day today.
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Me, I'm gonna have a good time anyway.
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Put it all behind me, lay it all away.
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Gonna be a good day today.
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Pulled my back and wrecked my car.
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Girl-friend stole my V. C. Are.
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Letter came from Sixty Minutes;
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say they wanna put me in it.
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Tell me my career just died.
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Years ago I might've cried.
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Now I'm just too old to do it.
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May be true, but screw it anyway.
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Me, I'm gonna have a good day today.
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And I'm gonna have a good time anyway.
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Put it all behind me, lay it all away.
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Gonna be a good day today.
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Hey, I'm gonna have a good day today.
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Me, I'm gonna have a good time anyway.
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Put it all behind me, lay it all away.
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Gonna be a good day today.
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