"Optimistic" adalah sebuah lagu yang dibawakan oleh band Radiohead. Lagu ini menyampaikan pesan optimisme yang tak tergoyahkan dalam menghadapi kesulitan hidup. Vokalis Thom Yorke dengan liriknya yang puitis dan penuh nuansa menggambarkan gambaran yang suram di mana keserakahan, predator, dan ketidakpedulian merajalela. Namun, di tengah kegelapan ini, lagu tersebut memberikan secercah harapan, menekankan bahwa bahkan upaya kecil pun dapat membuat perbedaan. Dengan pengulangan refrain yang menyatakan "The best you can is good enough", lagu ini mendorong pendengar untuk berusaha semaksimal mungkin, tidak peduli seberapa besar rintangan yang dihadapi.
Optimistic Lyrics
Radiohead
Flies are buzzing around my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem give me some
You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
[x2]
This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on an animal farm
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
[x2]
I'd really like to help you man
I'd really like to help you man.....
Nervous messed up marionette
Floating around on a prison ship
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the earth [x3]
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem give me some
You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
[x2]
This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on an animal farm
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
[x2]
I'd really like to help you man
I'd really like to help you man.....
Nervous messed up marionette
Floating around on a prison ship
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the earth [x3]
