Elvis Costello - Hidden Shame - Текст песни

I'm sorry to say that you don't know me 
I'm sad in ways you never understood 
Each time I try to tell the ugly truth 
You always let it pass you by 
You said I 'd never tell you a lie 
Just because I could 
Did you really think I was a bad man? 
You always said that that should be my middle name 
But you don't know the half of it 
You don't know how that name fits 
You don't know my hidden shame 

Hidden shame, shame, shame 
That I can't get free 
From the blame and the torture 
And the misery 
Must it be my secret for eternity? 
Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know me 

Well, there's a different kind of prison 
And it don't even have to look much like a cell 
It's already on your mind 
Boy, we can see it in your eyes 
So, here's the bars and walls as well 

Well, you know I'm never coming home, babe 
You said you'd stand by me until I cleared my name 
Sure it's easy to be strong 
When you know the charge is wrong 
But the days and weeks get long 
When you've got a hidden shame 

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I had a friend when I was just a boy 
We were like brothers, we would run and hide 
And we went walking on a high hillside 
And I really don't how it happened 
He turned to me and had this strange look in his eye 
And not a single word was spoken 
I must have pushed him, but I don't remember why 
And all at once, he lay there broken 
And I walked down without him and I didn't even sigh 

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They say you always hurt the one you love 
And I'm not saying if I did or if I didn't 
But like my shame, that kind of love is always hidden 
They locked me up here for the ideas in my head 
They never got me for the thing I really did 

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