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Hidden Shame

Johnny Cash

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Hidden Shame

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I'm sorry to say that you don't know meI'm set in way you never understoodEach time I tried to tell the ugly truthYou always let it pass you by you said I'd never tell you a lie just because I couldDid you really think I was a bad man?You always said that that should be my middle nameBut you don't know the half of it you don't know how that name fitsYou don't know my hidden shameHidden shame shame shame that I can't get freeFrom the blame and the torture and the miseryMust it be my secret for eternity?Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know meWell there's a different kind of prisonAnd it don't have to look much like a cellIt's already on your mind boy we can see it in your eyesSo here's the bars and walls that dweltWell you know I'm never comin' home babeYou said you'd stand by me until I cleared my nameSure it's easy to be strong when you know the charge is wrongBut the days and weeks get long when you've got a hidden shameHidden shame shame shame that I can't get freeFrom the blame and the torture and the miseryMust it be my secret for eternity?Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know me[guitar]I've had a friend when I was just a boyWe were like brothers we would run and hideAnd we went walking on a high hillsideAnd I really don't know how it happenedHe turned to me and had this strange look in his eyesAnd not a single word was spokenI must have pushed him but I don't remember whyAnd all at once he lay there brokenAnd I walked out without him and I buried it deep insideHidden shame shame shame that I can't get freeFrom the blame and the torture and the miseryMust it be my secret for eternity?Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know meThey say you always hurt the one you loveAnd I'm not sayin' if I did or if I didn'tBut like my shame that kind of love is always hiddenThey locked me up here for the ideas in my headThey never got me for the thing I really didHidden shame shame shame that I can't get freeFrom the blame and the torture and the miseryMust it be my secret for eternity?Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know meYou really don't know meYou really don't know me

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