Shame

[Verse 1]
Pretty little baby
How come you never come around?
Pretty little baby
How come you never come around?
I sent you all them pretty flowers
Now you're nowhere to be found

[Verse 2]
Call you up at midnight sometime, I must admit
When I find you're not at home
My head heats up like a furnace
My heart grows colder than a stone
So what's the good of all this money I got
If every night I'm left here all alone?
It's a gun that I need

[Chorus 1]
(Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame)
I ain't ashamed of nothin'
(Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame)
I don't know what you're talking about

[Verse 3]
All right, let's talk a little business
You know what I'm saying?
A man of my experience of life
Don't expect a beautiful young woman like yourself
To come on over here every day
Have some old dude banging on her like a gypsy on a tambourine
That's not what we're talking about
That's not what we're talking about
That's not what we're talking about
But I will say this
I've been all over the world
I've seen some wonderful things
I haven't been well lately
I have no one to share my plans, my dreams
My hopes and my schemes, my--

[Chorus 2]
(Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame)
Could be right
I've sunk pretty low this time
(Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame)
These are truly desperate times

[Verse 4]
Saw your little sandals, baby
Out behind the wishing well
Down here in the cool depths of the Quarter
Where the rich folk dwell
And I pictured you in diamonds
Satins and pearls
Come on back to daddy
Daddy miss his little baby girl

[Bridge]
Now, my father, he is an angry man
You cross him, he made you pay
I myself am no longer an angry man
Don't make me beg you
Don't make me beg

[Verse 5]
Do you know what if feels like
To wake up in the morning
Have every joint in your body aching, goddammit?
Do you know what it feels like
To have to get up in the middle of the night
And sit down to take a piss?
You do know?
So you say
I have my doubts, Missy
Do you know what it feels like
To have to beg a little bum like you for love?
Goddammit, you little bitch
I'd kill you if I didn't love you so much

[Chorus 3]
(Shame, shame, shame, shame)
Shut up!
Forgive me
My unfocused words
I was flying blind
I lost my mind
(Shame, shame, shame)
If you could find it in your heart, if you got one
To forgive me
(Shame, shame, shame)
I'd be ever so grateful
Will you stop that, please?
(Shame, shame, shame)
Will you stop that, please? I'm trying to talk to someone
(Shame)
Thank you
You know, I have a Lexus now, and
I don't get out much
You know what I'm saying
Come on home