Johnny Cash - Hidden Shame lyrics
[Johnny Cash - Hidden Shame lyrics]
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 fit's
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
Until 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
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
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
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 fit's
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
Until 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
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
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