Hidden Shame Lyrics

The song Hidden Shame is performed by Johnny Cash in the album named Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town/Boom Chicka Boom in the year 2003 .



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 pa*s 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

CHORUS

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

CHORUS

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

CHORUS



Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town/Boom Chicka Boom

Feb 2003

  1. The Big Light
  2. The Ballad Of Barbara
  3. I'd Rather Have You
  4. Let Him Roll
  5. The Night Hank Williams Came To Town
  6. Sixteen Tons
  7. Letters From Home
  8. W. Lee O Daniel (And The Light Crust Dough Boys)
  9. Heavy Metal (Don't Mean Rock And Roll To Me)
  10. My Ship Will Sail
  11. A Backstage Pass
  12. Cat's In The Cradle
  13. Farmer's Almanac
  14. Don't Go Near The Water
  15. Family Bible
  16. Harley
  17. I Love You Love You
  18. Hidden Shame
  19. Monteagle Mountain
  20. That's One You Owe Me

Hidden Shame