Please lend me your rose-coloured glasses,
And I'll cover my stormy blue eyes.
I'll create a world that loves me,
I'll give gray clouds a velvet disguise.
I wish for your rose-coloured glasses,
For your eyes soaking in only joy,
Oh! for simple feelings, affections
For each Woman and Man, Girl and Boy.
I'd wear out your rose-coloured glasses,
I would use them on all that I see.
Dark shady corners, frightening folk
Would never again terrify me.
I'd glow with your rose-coloured glasses!
What hopes and sensations I'd feel!
What glistening stories and glories
Would digest in my heart with zeal.
Don't give me your rose-coloured gla