Please call me an optimist, maybe it's a self-illusion

But I find it helpful to have a healthy sense of self-delusion

Everyone believes in something

Everyone believes in something good

Yes I have been thinking straight

Yes I have been drinking alcohol

"Listening" is not the right word

But I think maybe I've heard a call

I agree that justice seems to

Be conflicting against mercy

But I disagree that they could

Never live together peacefully

Even though it's been refuted

Proof still seems a little out of reach

Though I would prefer an answer

It still feels like something you can't teach