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Artist/Band: Johnny Cash
Lyrics for Song: Hidden Shame
Lyrics for Album: Legendary Collection [2005]



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 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



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



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 know 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



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



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



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

You really don't know me, you really don't know me


Album Lyrics: Legendary Collection [2005]


Johnny Cash
"Legendary Collection [2005]"


1. That's One You Owe Me
2. Hidden Shame