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)

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
Time: 0:42
Ooh, that's all I want
Woke up an optimist
Sun was shinin', I'm positive (We can run)

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)

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

Time: 1:51
I don't get angry when I'm pissed
I'm the eternal optimist
I scream inside to deal with it

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)
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Time: 1:06
Ignore the smoke
Call an optimist, she's turning blue
Such a lovely color for you

Time: 0:35
Jetzt seh ich die Zukunft positiv
Denn ich bin Optimist
Moment, was geht?

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?

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

Time: 1:22
You're a narcissist
I'm an optimist
Name a deadlier combo

Time: 0:23
I've been in shit some relationships
But I remain an optimist
It's not a game I'm playing

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

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

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

Time: 1:31
But it can also be a curse (mm-mm)
Always the optimist
Dеaling with somebody else's can of worms

Time: 1:22
As the idealistic things I believed
When the optimist died inside of me
No sunlight, no sunlight

Time: 0:13
It's so damn hard to believe in anything again
Wise is the optimist
But truth is I don't understand

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

Time: 1:14
Then where the hell is mine?
I'm trying to be an optimist
But it's hard sometimes

Time: 0:46
Lot of it's soft and it's blocking this
Optimist, positive, hope for the
Future's loss of awesomeness

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?

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

Time: 1:15
"Son, life just ain't that hard"
He is the grand optimist
I am the world's poor pessimist

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

Time: 3:05
Then send me a card
I'm still the optimist, though it is hard
When all you want to be

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

Time: 1:11
Is it pointless
To be a helpless optimist and non-conformist
Am I annoying

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

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

Time: 2:19
♪
Some ask me why I'm such an optimist
When it's more fashionable be a pessimist

Time: 1:34
Cartier around your wrist
I was such an optimist
You're a fuckin' narcissist

Time: 3:10
So here I stand
The well informed optimist
Who refuses to turn on

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

Time: 0:00
I was a pessimist just trying to be an optimist
Out in the world and I knew I wouldn't quit

Time: 1:21
I felt my throat gag
Misty is an optimist
She comes from way down low

Time: 0:00
How many optimists does it take to change a lightbulb?
None!

Time: 0:10
Optimists say
"The future's just a place we've never been"

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

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

Time: 0:00
I thought it was you and your optimist's view of the clock
And how it's always another day

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

Time: 0:30
I'm neon, in your daylight
I'm the optimist of 30th Street
How it is is how it oughta be

Time: 0:54
Won't be as bitter as the ones behind you
Be an optimist instead
And somehow happiness will find you

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

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

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

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

Time: 3:16
We tilt towards the light
Like such natural optimists
But we also love the night

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

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

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

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

Time: 0:00
The optimist swears hope dies last
And shoots the lamplight clean from the brakeman's hand

Time: 0:51
I, I, I know exactly what this is
I'm a fatal optimist, uh, mm
Forget I've ever been hurt

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

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

Time: 1:51
I can't remember the beginning
Am I an optimist
Or am I a pessimist

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

Time: 0:31
It only takes a drop to make it rain
You said I was an optimist
The hope in every goodbye kiss
