Red Flags or Roses

Punching that time clock, steel in my hands

Paying for dinners and the big weekend plans

Fairy smile, high heels, lipstick alibis

Told me I was crazy while she rewrote the lies

Wildfire weekends, gasoline kisses

I missed the smoke alarms and all the near misses

I kept patching up fences that I didn't break

Forgave one too many times for my own heart's sake

Red flags look like roses in the neon glow

I was blinded by the sexy till the truth said no

Gave two dozen second chances I could never afford

Got a pocket full of lessons I can't return to the store

I'm marching to the beat of my worn out boots

Singing twelve bar freedom with a backbone root

I'm doing fine on my own, that's the life I choose

Red flags look like roses, not anymore

Queen of the story, where she's never wrong

Took my Sunday calm, turned it into a storm

Gaslight, she's right, shadows on the wall

Said the dark was daylight just to watch me fall

Sexy as a promise with the ink still wet

I kept cashing I O U s, I never should have met

Loved the wild in her eyes, missed the wreck in her wake

Forgave one too many times for my own heart's sake

Red flags look like roses in the neon glow

I was blinded by the sexy till the truth said no

Gave two dozen second chances I could never afford

Got a pocket full of lessons I can't return to the store

I'm marching to the beat of my worn out boots

Singing twelve bar freedom with a backbone root

I'm doing fine on my own, that's the life I choose

Red flags look like roses, not anymore

She's a siren in sequins, sweet talk sugar cane

Kissed like summer thunder, left me standing in the rain

She could dodge any mirror, never owned her part

Left me holding broken glass, bleeding from my heart

Now it's me and the moon and a long dirt road

Peace rides shotgun where the drama used to go

I used to think every new love wore the same disguise

But maybe it was me loving fire over wise