Hidden Shame

Hidden Shame Lyrics

Song Hidden Shame
Artist Elvis Costello
Album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
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[00:05.30] I'm sorry to say that you don't know me
[00:09.44] In many ways you never understood
[00:13.67] Each time I tried to tell the ugly truth
[00:17.58] You always let it pass you by
[00:19.77] You said I'd never tell you a lie
[00:21.92] Just because I could
[00:24.77] Did you really think I was a bad man?
[00:28.94] You always said that "bad" should be my middle name
[00:32.83] But you don't know the half of it
[00:35.13] You don't know how that name fits
[00:38.71] You don't know my hidden shame
[00:42.46] Hidden shame, shame, shame
[00:44.55] That I can't get free
[00:46.48] From the blame and the torture and the misery
[00:50.83] Must it be my secret for eternity?
[00:54.91] Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know me
[00:59.08]
[01:04.94] Well, there's a different kind of prison
[01:09.09] And it don't even have to look much like a cell
[01:13.51] It's already on your mind
[01:15.30] Boy, we can see it in your eyes
[01:17.52] So, here's the bars and walls as well
[01:21.47] Well, you know I'm never coming home, dear
[01:25.69] You said you'd stand by me until I cleared my name
[01:29.92] Sure it's easy to be strong
[01:32.13] When you know the charge is wrong
[01:34.28] But the days and weeks get long
[01:37.76] When you've got a hidden shame
[01:41.16] Hidden shame, shame, shame
[01:43.28] That I can't get free
[01:45.62] From the blame and the torture and the misery
[01:49.57] Must it be my secret for eternity?
[01:53.74] Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know me
[01:58.03]
[02:08.91] I had a friend when I was just a boy
[02:12.98] We were like brothers
[02:14.07] We would run and hide
[02:17.33] And we went walking on a high hillside
[02:21.31] And I really don't how it happened
[02:25.45] He turned to me and had this strange look in his eye
[02:29.68] And not a single word was spoken
[02:33.64] I must have pushed him, but I don't remember why
[02:37.65] And all at once, he lay there broken
[02:41.38] And I walked down without him and I buried it deep inside
[02:45.17] Hidden shame, shame, shame
[02:46.84] That I can't get free
[02:49.15] From the blame and the torture and the misery
[02:53.03] Must it be my secret for eternity?
[02:57.20] Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know me
[03:01.09]
[03:07.15] They say you always hurt the one you love
[03:11.26] And I'm not saying if I did or if I didn't
[03:15.73] But like my shame, that kind of love is always hidden
[03:19.74] They locked me up here for the ideas in my head
[03:23.73] They never got me for the thing I really did
[03:27.12] Hidden shame, shame, shame
[03:28.85] That I can't get free
[03:30.97] From the blame and the torture and the misery
[03:35.07] Must it be my secret for eternity?
[03:39.26] Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know me
[03:43.22] you really don't know me
[03:43.46] you really don't know me
[03:45.39] you really don't know me
[03:47.47]
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