Fragile Tough Girl

Jo Davidson Fragile Tough Girl Lyrics
1.Fragile Tough Girl

Music:jo davidson
lyrics:jo davidson

When times are the worst you
See who you've got
You know what is real and you
Find out what is not

I thought i had something
But now i hurt so bad
You think you have friends that you
Don't really have. . . oh

I'm a fragile tough girl
Break me if you can but
I'm a fragile tough girl

I'm a fragile tough girl
Steady as a tree
I'm a fragile tough girl
And life is. . . messy

Everyone has a ladder
But at the top it's just another one
None of it will matter in the end
If you don't love someone

The wounds that hurt the most
Are the wounds you cannot see
I thought for sure when i needed you
You'd be here for me

Chorus repeat

Well you thought you were so wise to tell me
I'd grow from all the pain
And yet you were never here for me
Even when i called your name
I can take a slap like the best of them
But when it hurts too much to feel
I just dress my heart up in these bandages of steel

Oh i'm a fragile tough girl
Break me if you can but
I'm a fragile tough girl

I'm a fragile tough girl
Steady as a tree
I'm a fragile tough girl
So don't mess with me
Don't mess with me

Cause i'm a fragile tough girl oh
I'm a fragile tough girl
Steady as a tree
I'm a fragile tough girl
And life is messy.


2.All The World's Religions

Music:jo davidson
lyrics:jo davidson

If i will not eat a
Cow. . .
If a bible's in my house
If i spend my days in prayer

If a veil covers my
Head
If i make the floor my
Bed
What does it matter really?

If history could rewrite itself oh would it really change

If all the world's religions cannot keep us living together
Together
Together
Then what do we believe in maybe god is bigger than all this
Than all this

There's darkness and then there's
Light
The two always seem to
Fight
Living in my soul without paying rent

My contradictions run
Deep
I try to work them out in my
Sleep
So if i've hurt you please forgive me

If history could rewrite itself oh would it really change

Chorus repeat. . .

What do i believe in?
Maybe god is bigger than all this.


3.Tonite

Music:jo davidson
lyrics:jo davidson

Well i haven't felt right a few nights or more
And i recognize this dance from times before
And i know this too shall pass
But i wish there was less time in the hour glass

Like a stranger in my bed
Leaving me so cold
Voices in my head
Trying to bring me down

But i won't give up tonite
And i'll hold this dream within me
No i won't give up tonite
And i won't give up tomorrow

Tell me what's it take for you to succeed
Is it measured by how much you can bleed
'cause i've bled enough to know
That it might not be the only way to go

It's a stranger in my bed
Leaving me so cold
Voices in my head
Trying to bring me down

But i won't give up tonite
And i'll hold this dream within me
No i won't give up tonite
And i won't give up tomorrow.


4.Real

Music:jo davidson
lyrics:jo davidson

A crowded room
Some shallow club in l.a.
Trying to talk over the music
Like there's anything to say
He turns to me and says
'people are more real in new york.'
'oh really,' i answer not believing a word
To me his statement is just a little bit absurd
Like new york is any different as if anywhere is different from
Anywhere

People are real wherever you go
It's just a matter of what they're afraid to show
People are real wherever you go
It's just a matter of what they're hiding

Well a guy comes to the table and he does his magic and
Suddenly a little turtle jumps right out of his jacket and
All i can think is what must that turtle be thinking
Then the owner slips the magician a couple large bills
And he's on to the next table and he's on to the next thrills
Oh the champagne keeps flowing and everyone is happy happy

Chorus repeat

You gotta be on something to be into this
You have to already have fallen to fall for these tricks
With her back to the wall she stands there alone
Holding her stomach and wishing she was home

Chorus


5.Mental Pollution

Music:jo davidson
lyrics:jo davidson

Well i can't blame the rain
For all of my pain
And i can't blame the clouds
And i can't blame the sky
Or be jealous of the birds that
Fly

Does anybody hear me
Does anybody hear me
Because i don't

Because i lost my hearing long ago
From the media bombs going off in my living room
Lies on the tv
Lies in the movies
Lies on the billboards
Nobody tells the truth
I'm going deaf

Does anybody hear me
Does anybody hear
Because i don't

I'm tired of all the violence
We've lost lives enough
And i'm tired of all the nudity so much sex without love
And i'm tired of all the smokers blowing smoke in my face
And the same old boring models decorating every fashion page
I don't trust the politicians
Or the movie ratings board
And i'm tired of fighting all these inner and outer wars
I've got bullets in my head
I've got blood in my ears
And the world could drown from the truth that's in my tears

Does anybody hear me
Does anybody hear
Because i don't because i. . .


6.I Don't Dance

Music:jo davidson
lyrics:jo davidson

He said let's go out for drinks
And we'll talk some business
I was young i didn't think
And the next thing i knew
I was driving his rolls royce
Trying to keep him off my dress
I'd never been in a rolls royce
But i wasn't impressed

Can't you tell
I don't dance well
No i don't dance oh i don't dance no
I don't dance well

I kept bringing up his wife
And i told him i went to church
He said oh that's very nice
Then the waiter brought our food
I was hungry so i ate
Then i said it's getting late
And i wish you'd take me home
But he wanted to dance

Can't you tell
I don't dance well
I don't dance oh i don't dance
Oh i don't dance well
When i hate the music
When i hate the song
Turn off the radio-awhoa-awhoa

I was fired soon after (bummer)
And my boyfriend was so mad
I collected my two weeks pay
And that was the end of that

Can't you tell i don't dance well
I don't dance oh i don't dance oh i don't dance well
When i hate the music
When i hate the song
Turn off the radio-awhoa-awhoa
Cause i don't dance
For just anyone.


7.Rose Colored Glasses

Music:jo davidson
lyrics: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 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.


8.Secrets

Music:jo davidson
lyrics:jo davidson

If i told you all the thoughts that i have
Would it make you happy or would it make you sad
You and i, already so close
You're the one i want to know the most
For all the times we do say
For all the times we don't
For all the words we will say
For all the words we won't

Chorus
I don't want the secrets to build up between us
Even if we stand or even if we fall
I don't want the secrets to build up between us
Every crevice started as a crack in the wall

Verse 2
Can we go deeper than this
And can a kiss be more than a kiss
I like to tell my secrets at night
We are full of darkness and we're full of light
For all the times we do say
For all the times we don't

I don't want the secrets to build up between us
Even if we stand or even if we fall
I don't want the secrets to build up between us
Every crevice started as a crack in the wall

Bridge
Will you be afraid to have it so real
Can you handle all the things that i feel?

Chorus
Oh i don't want the secrets to build up between us
Even if we stand or even if we fall
I don't want the secrets to build up between us
Every crevice started as a crack in the wall
No i don't want the secrets to build up between us
Even if we stand or even if we fall
Funny how a house is always torn down slowly
Every crevice started as a crack in the wall.


9.Alone In My Room

Music:jo davidson
lyrics:jo davidson

When times are the worst you see who you've got
You know what is real and you find out what is not
I thought i had something but now i hurt so bad
You think you have things that you donõt really have

Oh i'm a fragile tough girl break me if you can
I'm a fragile tough girl
Oh i'm a fragile tough girl
Steady as a tree and life is
Messy

When times are so harsh there's no room for lies
The world is screaming and you're craving lullabies
Awake in the night asleep in the day
Everything's so raw and it's not ok

Where do you go when you're hurting inside
Who do you turn to and where do you hide
To all things their season to all things their time
I believe in the sun even when it doesn't shine.


10.Cherry Road

Music:jo davidson
lyrics:jo davidson

On cherry road house 1202
There's an interesting woman who paints male nudes
She spreads their legs til it's almost crude
And she paints a full frontal
View

The men in the neighborhood think she'd warped
She does what men have done for centuries in the name of art
She has her reasons but she cannot say
Who could understand anyway

Some of her models have gorgeous physiques
Some have bodies that look quite weak
Some make her lust and laugh and cry
Some are to live for some are to die

They feel her anger like a torrid rain
She positions her models that they feel her pain

She undoes shirts and undoes pants
She unzips zippers with the bare of her hands
She sees their bodies and it makes her whole
As she laughs at the state of her soul

Rage is the palette passion the brush
The canvas shutters when it feels her touch
Black is the beauty blue is the pain
And she mixes the two like the clouds mix rain

On cherry road house 1202 there's an
Interesting woman who paints male nudes
She spreads their legs til it's almost crude
And she paints a full frontal
View.


11.Shampoo Boy

Music:jo davidson
lyrics:jo davidson

Well you call me on the phone
I am watching tv alone and you say
'when you become big and famous, and the
Crowds are going wild and you're making lots of money
And your house is full of toys can i be your

Shampoo boy
Oh can i be your shampoo boy oh whoa
Can i be your. . .'

Well i went to your house for a
Barbecue on sunday out in malibu you'd just come in
From surfing
You were looking pretty sexy and you
Didn't have a shirt on and i thought to myself
You could be a shampoo boy

Oh you could be my
Shampoo boy

And if i remember you when i'm famous
Then don't forget me if i'm not
And if i'm never on the cover of rolling stone
Will you still think i'm hot?

Well you call me on the phone
I am watching tv alone and you say
'hey kid you got a great voice, and i know that you'll go
Far if you stay the way you are and when you get there
Call me up and i will be your

Shampoo boy
Oh can i be your shampoo boy
Oh whoa can i be your. . . . ?'