[Zeke.]

If you can't appreciate Gloria's ability to perfectly encapsulate the emotion of "optimism" then there is no hope for you tbh.

Lyrics are always secondary to the music itself for me. The magic of music is that it has the ability to transmit an emotional feeling into your chest, through sound alone. You don't need words to communicate a message; in that case, you're telling the listener what to feel. Just make them feel. If you take away the storyline and remove the crutch of words that aid in painting a third party's experience, and you're still able to feel that emotion, to feel the aftermath of some sort of experience as if it were your own, that's when you know it's a good piece of music.

Learn to listen with your heart and not your brain. Develop a sense for sound.
It's the difference between reading a movie's synopsis, and watching the film itself.