The Streets - Something to Hide lyrics

Everyone's got something to hide if
They don't there's something wrong
Personal space and privacy are rights
That we hold strong
So devastating was the day
And many felt the shock
Of innocent men's reputations wrecked
Upon the rocks
When a fishy foreign website went
And listed a lofty list
Of everybody's names and everywhere on
The net they’d been published far and wide
To the public's alarm and fright
Everybody's private lives
For everybody's prying eyes
Late nights on sites
Of minds that yearn to learn
Complete histories of mischiefs and the
Time of each searched word

Everyone has something to hide if
They don't there's something wrong
Personal space and privacy are rights
That we hold strong

My life was ruined, and so were many others
When that fishy foreign website posted
My private life uncovered
Some people looked like fools
Others ostracised
Some people lost their money
Others lost their wives
But for the others compared to
Me their suffering was nothing
We've all been made to pay by
Them dredging up the mud
Everything was peaceful and
People were forgetting
Til this act of evil outed me
And exposed my deeds to them

Everyone has something to hide if
They don't there's something wrong
Personal space and privacy are rights
That we hold strong
Time to go now, time to part with a prayer
There is a space where my heart
Has been somewhere out there
They say I am a monster
They say I should be dead
My friends and family will never
Speak to me again

Everyone has something to hide if
They don't there's something wrong
Personal space and privacy are
Rights I hold strong

I feel bad for the man
Who had been serving time
For what they've billed as recent
History's most heinous crime
But privacy is privacy whether
Anyone's or mine even if I did commit recent
History's most heinous crime