Shame the Devil...afraid of shadows that might keep us apart....
Sometimes it's like a bad dream...with my footsteps going nowhere.....


Requested by Carole Mooney


I'll take any madness this world has to give,
sometimes I act the wise man and I sometimes play the clown
And I stand up and fight when I feel I'm in the right
and I don't let anything or anybody put me down.
But I have a weakness and that's when someone hurts you
and I can't find the way to say I care.
When you crawl into your shell and I can't find the way to reach you...
It's the one thing that's too much for me to bear.

CHORUS:
And so for you - oh I sigh.....!
Oh I die a little more every time you leave me...
In love - so am I.
Oh I try a little more to be strong believe me - for you....

How can I tell you - could I write it in a letter?...
put the words to music? Would you hear me if I do?
'Cos sometimes when you hold me and your body drives me crazy
I still can feel the secrets that are locked inside of you....
And your pride and your pain they are like a wall between us....
and I can't break it down - so it's breaking me!
You know I would do anything just to see you through these bad times...
and it's hard when Love must look on helplessly.

CHORUS:
And so for you - oh I sigh.....!
Oh I die a little more every time you leave me...
In love - so am I.
Oh I try a little more to be strong believe me - for you....

Like a child - awake in the night
I lie here crying - I can't find the light
And all that I hear is the sound of my own heart
I'm afraid of shadows that might keep us apart...

Sometimes I think that I might as well just go
but though you cannot say it, your eyes ask me to stay.
Oh there's no need to worry - tell the truth and shame the devil! -
you're such a part of me now I couldn't leave you anyway.
But sometimes it's like a bad dream with my footsteps going nowhere
no matter how I try to run away...
and no matter what direction... it seems I always wind up in your arms,
making love and promising I'll stay.

CHORUS:
And so for you - oh I sigh.....!
Oh I die a little more every time you leave me...
In love - so am I.
Oh I try a little more to be strong believe me - for you....
Oh I sigh..... Oh I die a little more every time you leave me...
for you....
I die.... For You.

Lyrics & Music: © Rosie Hardman 1985
Note from Rosie: Some people might be quite surprised by the illustration I have chosen for this song as it is seen by many to be a pretty, gentle love song. In fact I intended it to be a passionate cri de coeur from someone trapped inside a nightmare situation, born of inability to communicate and fear of separation. Panda Gielen's picture sums up exactly how I felt when I wrote the song.


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