Rose Colored Glasses Songtext
von Jo Davidson

You said my tight jeans were causing him to sin
And that anyway you never liked girls like me
Strutting around with my shirt tucked in
Not covering where the boys shouldn′t see
You called me a bitch, it became my new name
Then you tried to teach me to love
Your impact stopped where your actions left off
I felt I was never good enough

With rules by which even God wouldn't abide
You set down the iron fist
I fell in lust and the punishment stung
Like fresh blood on a suicidal wrist
In spite of the four-foot log in your eye
You sought out the speck in my own
You delivered your judgment day after day
From the glass house where you threw stones


Rose-colored glasses
They were all I knew how to wear
I was young and I had no money
To buy me another pair
So I wore my rose-colored glasses
And I tried to see through the pain
You watched me through the rearview mirror
′Til I was no longer sane

You played the enemy then you played the friend
I never denied you the choice
You stripped away the music of me
'Til I sang but I heard no voice
I gained twenty pounds, put my tight jeans away
And my high heels under the bed
Oh, I didn't feel sexy but I guess I was pure
Lost my body and lost my head

Rose-colored glasses
I couldn′t tell the time nor the hour
I gave you all the control
But in the end you held no power
I wore my rose-colored glasses
And I tried to see through the pain
You watched me through the rearview mirror
′Til I was no longer sane


Ten months later and a lifetime of hell
When all the issues had cracked
Oh, we parted ways without saying goodbye
And I never once looked back

And now yesterday I found your skeleton in my closet
With a memory of what happened to me
I wiped off the dust like a cloud of mistrust
In my personal museum of history
It's an empty feeling, I have no girlfriends
I tiptoe by the mall in a soft shoe
′Cause every time I see a woman's face
I′m only seeing you

Rose-colored glasses
I never saw you for what you were
Not 'til many years later
When I opened the wound where you′d hurt me
I wore my rose-colored glasses
And I tried to see through the pain
You watched me through the rearview mirror
'Til I was no longer sane

Rose-colored glasses
I couldn't tell the time nor the hour
I gave you all the control
But in the end you held no power
I wore my rose-colored glasses
And I tried to see through the pain
You watched me through the rearview mirror
′Til I was no longer sane
I was no longer sane
I was no longer sane