When your guard is down and your hopes are up
Keep yourself afloat when you’re rising up,
It’s just an optimistic way of thinking of you,
When an ill wind blows and it does no good
Keep your head up high and don’t you brood
It’s just an optimistic way of thinking of you.
Bring it all back home to where we were before,
Bring it all back home to where we were before.
When an ill wind blows on a stormy day
Wrap yourself up tight no matter what they say,
It’s just an optimistic way of thinking of you,
When the chips are down and you’re feeling sad
Think yourself about, can’t be all that bad,
It’s just an optimistic way of thinking of you.
When your ship has sailed and the well is dry
When you’re overlooked and you don’t know why,
It’s just an optimistic way of thinking of you,
When its bleak at night and your feet are cold
Wrap yourself up warm don’t put your life on hold,
It’s just an optimistic way of thinking of you.
credits
from Decade,
released March 7, 2022
Ivan Drever Guitars - Vocals & Bass
Rod Paul - Mandolin
Absolutely excellent musicianship, composition and arrangements. This is very powerfully beautiful music which reflects the story behind the piece. inverdee5764
Saw Kris in London last night - solo show, and he achieved all the moody glimmer of the albums: the complex guitar work, rich singing and even foot-power percussion. Best of all he brought his keen humour to a serious folk temple and brightened the place up no end! Highlights- Shetland wedding march, Navigators, Scapa Flow 1919 & If Wishes were Horses. andannh
Dystopia was my introduction to Talisk when the live version of it was out on youtube. Between the energy and life not just by the music itself, but the people playing it being so engrained into the songs themselves, Talisk has become a foot-stomper, and an absolute jam of a band to put on full volume. ladyoforion