HIDDEN SHAME
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A                                D                                 G
I'm sorry to say that you don't know me I'm sad in ways you never understood
                             C
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
        A
Just because I could
                              D
Did you really think I was a bad man?
                                  G
You always said that that should be my middle name
                               C
But you don't know the half of it You don't know how that name fits
           A      C      A
You don't know my hidden shame
CHORUS:
        D                          C         A
Hidden shame, shame, shame That I can't get free
          D                            C    A
From the blame and the torture And the misery
        C      A         C      A
Must it be my secret for eternity?
         C              A                 C          A
'Til you know my hidden shame, you really don't know me

 A                                D                                 G
Well, there's a different kind of prison And it don't even have to look much like a cell
                     C
It's already on your mind Boy, we can see it in your eyes
                         A                                             D
So, here's the bars and walls as well Well, you know I'm never coming home, babe
                             G
You said you'd stand by me until I cleared my name
                      C
Sure, it's easy to be strong When you know the charge is wrong
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But the days and weeks get long When you've got a hidden shame
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                           D                                          G
I had a friend when I was just a boy We were like brothers, we would run and hide
                          C
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
                     A               C           A   CHORUS:
And I walked down without him and I didn't even sigh

A                             D
They say you always hurt the one you love
                         G
And I'm not saying if I did or if I didn't
                                 C
But like my shame, that kind of love is always hidden

They locked me up here for the ideas in my head
            A              C              A   CHORUS:
They never got me for the thing I really did
A
You really don’t know me  You really don’t know me   

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