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 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