The Grand Optimist

City and Colour is the recording alias for Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, who was also the guitarist and vocalist of the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. He plays melodic acoustic and folk music and is often accompanied by a rotating number of Canadian indie rock musicians, such as Daniel Romano and Spencer Burton of Attack in Black. The name City and Colour comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt queasy "putting the album out under the name Dallas Green". Green said that he had been writing material since he was around the age of 14. Regarding the songs released on his first album, Sometimes, Green said that he had been writing material for it as early as when he w… more »

Year:: 2011
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I fear I'll die from complications.
Complications due to things that I've left undone.
That all my debts will be left unpaid.
Feel like a cripple without a cane.
I'm like a jack of all trades who's a master of none.

Then there's my father,
He's always looking on the bright side.
Saying things like, "son, life just ain't that hard."
He is the grand optimist, I am the world's poor pessimist.
You'll give him burdens sometimes, and he will escape unscarred.

I guess I take after my mother.
I guess I take after my mother.

But I used to be quite resilient.
Gained no strength from counting the beads on a rosary.
Now, the wound has begun to turn.
Another lesson that has gone unlearned,
But this is not a cry for pity or for sympathy.

I guess I take after my mother.
I guess I take after my mother.
I guess I take after my mother.
I guess I take after my mother.

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Written by: Dallas John Green

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