School of Rock: P is for Pessimism

Things can only get worse as we examine songs that see the glass as half emptyO was for optimism, and now the alphabet allows us to flip-reverse into negativity. Last week, when Mike Scott of the Waterboys saw the crescent, we all saw the whole of the moon – but today we're going to see the beaming sickle grin of Satan gloating over a doomed world … What do we mean by pessimism? There is a difference between singing about misery and having a truly pessimistic outlook on life. Certai...

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