Hidden Shame Lyrics - Secret, Profane And Sugarcane - Elvis Costello

I'm sorry to say that you don't know me 

In many 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 

Well, 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 and 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 

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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 the walls as well 

Well, you know I'm never coming home, dear 

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 got a hidden shame 

Hidden shame, shame, shame and 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 

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I had a friend when I was just a boy 

We were like brothers, we would run and hide 

We went out walking on a high hillside 

And I really don't how it happened 

He turned to me and he 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 buried it deep inside 

Hidden shame, shame, shame and 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, yeah 

They say you always hurt the one you love 

And I'm not saying if I did or if I didn't 

'Cause just 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 

Hidden shame, shame, shame and 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 

You really don't know me 

You really don't know me