Jo Davidson Rose Colored Glasses lyrics

Rose Colored Glasses by Jo Davidson

Rose Colored Glasses lyrics

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 what 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
eggshells had cracked 
oh we parted ways without saying goodbye 
and I never once looked back 

now yesterday I found your skeleton in my closet 
with the 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 
them 
all 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 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
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.