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Rose-Colored Times Lyrics
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes closed
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes open wide.
Shabby tried to comb her hair with a gift from her grandma, her blood
Tangled, she got halfway
Sticky and powdered with dirt from the ground where her mamma had left her
Had left her, left her
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes closed
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes open wide
Rusty the screen door, she opened it
Raised from the ground
Mamma left me her ring, mamma left me no family
Just barstools and boyfriends and whiskey at nighttime, and bedtime
Bedtime
I'll go with a man who looks like my father,
The neighbors all tell me to go with him
He better take caution, he better take care of me,
Cause if he don't, he better beware of me
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes closed
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes open wide
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes open wide.
Tangled, she got halfway
Sticky and powdered with dirt from the ground where her mamma had left her
Had left her, left her
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes open wide
Raised from the ground
Mamma left me her ring, mamma left me no family
Just barstools and boyfriends and whiskey at nighttime, and bedtime
Bedtime
The neighbors all tell me to go with him
He better take caution, he better take care of me,
Cause if he don't, he better beware of me
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes open wide
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One of my favorite Lisa Loeb songs.
Its about being an only child who is pretty much abondoned by her mother in favour of boyfreinds bars and alcohol.
"Sticky and powdered with dirt from the ground where her mamma had left her."
"Mamma left me her ring, mamma left me no family. Just barstools and boyfriends and whiskey at nighttime, and bedtime."
In the end she goes back to live with her father.
Quote from Lisa Loeb:
"It's haunting. "Rose Colored Times" was inspired by the movie Paper Moon. It's about a woman remembering her childhood. The choruses get progressively harder and louder. The imagery of being on an amusement park ride as a child means several things: it's exhilarating and fun, but it's also frightening and disorienting. Ironically, some of the electric guitars were recorded at Tatum O'Neal's beach house."
"In the end she goes back to live with her father. " - probably not. It clearly says "looks like my father". Why would she say about her father that "he better beware of me"? It probably refers to how girls often choose for a husband/partner a man who is in fact similar to their father (i.e. to make up for the loss of a male role model).