optimist

positive thinker; a person disposed to take a favorable view of things

Heard in 59 songs (707M+ combined views) — most famously in "FourFiveSeconds" by Paul McCartney.

Updated August 12, 2026

Songs Featuring “optimist

Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds

Time: 0:42

Ooh, that's all I want

Woke up an optimist

Sun was shinin', I'm positive (We can run)

Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds

Nicki Minaj - Barbie Tingz

Time: 0:06

Uh, I'm in my prime, Optimus

Sagittarius, so you know I'm a optimist

Man, keep it all real, I'm a prophetess (Okay)

Nicki Minaj - Barbie Tingz

Paramore - Rose-Colored Boy

Time: 0:25

'Cause I just killed off what was left of

The optimist in me

But hearts are breaking, and wars are raging on

Paramore - Rose-Colored Boy

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

Time: 1:51

I don't get angry when I'm pissed

I'm the eternal optimist

I scream inside to deal with it

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

Drake - Versace [Remix]

Time: 0:22

I think I'm sellin' a million first week

Man, I guess I'm an optimist (Milli')

Born in Toronto but sometimes I feel like Atlanta adopted us (Go)

Drake - Versace [Remix]

A Perfect Circle - Blue

Time: 1:06

Ignore the smoke

Call an optimist, she's turning blue

Such a lovely color for you

A Perfect Circle - Blue

Die Fantastischen Vier - Die Da!?!

Time: 0:35

Jetzt seh ich die Zukunft positiv

Denn ich bin Optimist

Moment, was geht?

Die Fantastischen Vier - Die Da!?!

Hans Zimmer - Pompeii MMXXIII

Time: 1:32

Does it almost feel like you've been here before?

How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

Hans Zimmer - Pompeii MMXXIII

Lecrae - Cry For You

Time: 3:02

I can only hope in God with confidence

Opposite of optimist, you and I are consonants

Broken all the vowels, deservin' of every consequence

Lecrae - Cry For You

Freya Skye - silent treatment

Time: 1:22

You're a narcissist

I'm an optimist

Name a deadlier combo

Freya Skye - silent treatment

Hunter Hayes - Heartbreak

Time: 0:23

I've been in shit some relationships

But I remain an optimist

It's not a game I'm playing

Hunter Hayes - Heartbreak

Eminem - Asshole

Time: 3:56

It ain't never gonna stop, a pessimist

Who transformed to an optimist in his prime

So even if I'm half-dead, I'm half-alive

Eminem - Asshole

Andrew Bird - Bloodless

Time: 1:10

Putting my weight behind the dancer

I know it's hard to be an optimist

When you trust least the ones who claim to have the answers

Andrew Bird - Bloodless

Diddy - Diddy

Time: 0:45

And it ain't no stop to this

I can't help it, I'm an optimist

And I'ma make ya head bop to this

Diddy - Diddy

MARINA - Pandora's Box

Time: 1:31

But it can also be a curse (mm-mm)

Always the optimist

Dеaling with somebody else's can of worms

MARINA - Pandora's Box

Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight

Time: 1:22

As the idealistic things I believed

When the optimist died inside of me

No sunlight, no sunlight

Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight

Alessia Cara - All We Know

Time: 0:13

It's so damn hard to believe in anything again

Wise is the optimist

But truth is I don't understand

Alessia Cara - All We Know

Nas - Speechless, Pt. 2

Time: 2:20

I'm lost for words for Black babies with low confidence

"You could do it too if I win," says the optimist

You ever see a wordless book? That does not exist

Nas - Speechless, Pt. 2

Teddy Swims - Will It Find Me

Time: 1:14

Then where the hell is mine?

I'm trying to be an optimist

But it's hard sometimes

Teddy Swims - Will It Find Me

Tech N9ne - Seepage

Time: 0:46

Lot of it's soft and it's blocking this

Optimist, positive, hope for the

Future's loss of awesomeness

Tech N9ne - Seepage

Kidz Bop Kids - Pompeii

Time: 0:56

Does it almost feel like you've been here before?

How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

Kidz Bop Kids - Pompeii

Buju Banton - COCONUT WATA (SIP)

Time: 1:06

Now in a California where the man them getting rich

Loyalty man have to be a true optimist

Work hard for what you want and stop watch my shit

Buju Banton - COCONUT WATA (SIP)

City and Colour - The Grand Optimist

Time: 1:15

"Son, life just ain't that hard"

He is the grand optimist

I am the world's poor pessimist

City and Colour - The Grand Optimist

The Wombats - If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming with You

Time: 0:27

I'll get out of bed, stop listening to Radiohead

Take you out of this, your reluctant optimist

And if you ever leave, I'm coming with you

The Wombats - If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming with You

Say Anything - Woe

Time: 3:05

Then send me a card

I'm still the optimist, though it is hard

When all you want to be

Say Anything - Woe

The Alchemist - Left No Evidence

Time: 0:54

The king is back to aces (back to aces)

A dirty game but I'm an optimist (I know)

When they say it's all the same, I say the opposite

The Alchemist - Left No Evidence

Neck Deep - Worth It

Time: 1:11

Is it pointless

To be a helpless optimist and non-conformist

Am I annoying

Neck Deep - Worth It

Hilary Duff - The Optimist

Time: 1:05

And that he never meant to disappoint me

But 'til then I'll exist as the optimist

I was an emotional architect

Hilary Duff - The Optimist

Lil Wayne - Deep

Time: 2:44

You can tell I'm grinding by my wrist

Anything can happen 'cause a broke man is an optimist

Well, tell them I'll be waiting in suspense

Lil Wayne - Deep

Stevie Wonder - Positivity

Time: 2:19

Some ask me why I'm such an optimist

When it's more fashionable be a pessimist

Stevie Wonder - Positivity

FINNEAS - Starfucker

Time: 1:34

Cartier around your wrist

I was such an optimist

You're a fuckin' narcissist

FINNEAS - Starfucker

The Specials - The Life and Times (Of a Man Called Depression)

Time: 3:10

So here I stand

The well informed optimist

Who refuses to turn on

The Specials - The Life and Times (Of a Man Called Depression)

Maren Morris - Circles Around This Town

Time: 0:35

Hadn't heard the sound of a door slam yet

Thank God I was an optimist

I drove circles around this town

Maren Morris - Circles Around This Town

Lauv - mariah

Time: 0:00

I was a pessimist just trying to be an optimist

Out in the world and I knew I wouldn't quit

Lauv - mariah

Iggy Pop - The Regency

Time: 1:21

I felt my throat gag

Misty is an optimist

She comes from way down low

Iggy Pop - The Regency

Idles - White Privilege

Time: 0:00

How many optimists does it take to change a lightbulb?

None!

Idles - White Privilege

Sting - One Fine Day

Time: 0:10

Optimists say

"The future's just a place we've never been"

Sting - One Fine Day

Eve - Ryde Away

Time: 2:32

But it wont work

I guess I'm just an optimist

What's it gonna take for all of us to stand up

Eve - Ryde Away

Aimee Mann - The Fall of the World's Own Optimist

Time: 0:24

Hey, kids-look at this

It's the fall of the world's own optimist

I could get back up if you insist

Aimee Mann - The Fall of the World's Own Optimist

Elvis Costello - Crimes of Paris

Time: 0:00

I thought it was you and your optimist's view of the clock

And how it's always another day

Elvis Costello - Crimes of Paris

Bon Jovi - You Can Sleep While I Dream

Time: 0:29

Innocence thinks it can change the world but the world keeps getting in the way

It's a small list for the optimist who believes that he can fly

In a long line full of pessimists to stop him every time he tries

Bon Jovi - You Can Sleep While I Dream

David Byrne - Optimist

Time: 0:30

I'm neon, in your daylight

I'm the optimist of 30th Street

How it is is how it oughta be

David Byrne - Optimist

The Kinks - Better Things

Time: 0:54

Won't be as bitter as the ones behind you

Be an optimist instead

And somehow happiness will find you

The Kinks - Better Things

Bad Religion - Doing Time

Time: 0:32

Watch them try

The cynic laughs at the optimist's closed eyes

Darkness falls, curtain calls, the cynic's beer soon overflows

Bad Religion - Doing Time

Andy Grammer - Big Stupid Heart

Time: 0:25

I started feeling all my feelings at exactly the same time

And I'm an optimist by trade and I choose to see the light

But if I'm honest I need breaks to rub the darkness from my eyes

Andy Grammer - Big Stupid Heart

The Dresden Dolls - The Kill

Time: 1:50

A walrus coke head lizard, oh, oh

I am an optimist, a closeted misogynist

I fought the British and I won, oh, oh, ah

The Dresden Dolls - The Kill

Ringo Starr - Hopeless

Time: 1:35

There's inner peace through meditation

There's optimists and pessimists, I don't know which is worse

But the yogi mow mow, but the yogi mow mow, it's hopeless

Ringo Starr - Hopeless

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hello My Name Is

Time: 3:16

We tilt towards the light

Like such natural optimists

But we also love the night

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hello My Name Is

Tanya Tucker - What Your Love Does for Me

Time: 1:48

What was once half empty is now half full

Now I'm an optimist, baby, dyed in the wool

Ever since you gave my lonely heart strings a pull

Tanya Tucker - What Your Love Does for Me

Emma Roberts - We Are Gonna Happen

Time: 0:29

Our friends all ask what's the deal

Say I'm just an optimist

But we could be much more than this

Emma Roberts - We Are Gonna Happen

A Day to Remember - Out Of Time

Time: 1:28

This wasn't part of my vision

The optimist in me says we can make this last, but no

You ruined my favorite records

A Day to Remember - Out Of Time

Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style

Time: 0:38

(Yo, dude, I just got this new song, it's dope man)

Compact disc to the prime is optimist

Fans or friends, I'm universally cosmic

Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style

Father John Misty - Screamland

Time: 0:00

The optimist swears hope dies last

And shoots the lamplight clean from the brakeman's hand

Father John Misty - Screamland

Madi Diaz - Fatal Optimist

Time: 0:51

I, I, I know exactly what this is

I'm a fatal optimist, uh, mm

Forget I've ever been hurt

Madi Diaz - Fatal Optimist

Dua Lipa - End Of An Era

Time: 0:10

What's it about a kiss that makes me feel like this?

Makes me an optimist, I guess

I always jump too quick, hopin' this one might stick

Dua Lipa - End Of An Era

Q-Tip - The Invitation

Time: 0:11

I represent the poor and profitless corner monopolists

The pessimist outnumber the optimist on the block and it's

Coppers that got binoculars 'cause I can feel them watchin' us

Q-Tip - The Invitation

Jeffrey Lewis - Seattle

Time: 1:51

I can't remember the beginning

Am I an optimist

Or am I a pessimist

Jeffrey Lewis - Seattle

Nat King Cole - This is My Night to Dream

Time: 0:14

You are a girl who ought to be kissed

And I am a man, a brave optimist

I've got to make you see

Nat King Cole - This is My Night to Dream

Take That - March Of The Hopeful

Time: 0:31

It only takes a drop to make it rain

You said I was an optimist

The hope in every goodbye kiss

Take That - March Of The Hopeful