Shame Lyrics
You're gonna walk on home
You're gonna walk alone
You're gonna see this through
Don't let them get to you
[Chorus]
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
[Verse 2]
Love is good and love is kind
Love is drunk and love is blind
Love is good and love is mine
Love is drunk all the time
[Chorus]
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
[Verse 3]
You're gonna walk on home
You're gonna walk alone
You're gonna walk so far
You're gonna wonder who you are
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
Shame
Shame
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 4]
Love is good and love is kind
Love is good and love is blind
Love is good and love is mine
Love is good all the time
[Outro]
Hello, goodbye, you know you made us cry
Hello, goodbye, you know you made us cry
Hello, goodbye, you know you made us cry
Hello, goodbye, you know you made us cry
Hello, goodbye, you know you made us cry
Hello, goodbye, you know you made us cry
Hello, goodbye, you know you made us cry
About
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
It was the three of us and a drum machine, just like we were when we started 10 years ago, before Jimmy joined the band. I wrote this song at 10 in the morning, and we started playing it and the chemistry of the Pumpkins just reappeared. By three that afternoon, we had recorded it. What you hear is that performance.
A friend asked if the directness of those lyrics worried me. But there is a different power in that. A simplicity. I think that’s why that song is so defining. In that one song you get everything that’s good and bad about the Pumpkins: a spontaneous, dreamy quality, a certain kind of emotion. I’m singing out of tune. The lyrics border on inane. I thought as I was writing it that I would have to change the lyrics later. But it somehow congealed. We try to be the super-fuzz rock stars, but that’s not who we really are. That song is who we really are.
In the 2014 reissue liner notes, Corgan comments:
Also a kind of live track, there is a bit of sleight of hand there, as I went back and overdubbed some things immediately afterwards; capturing the same feeling with a bit more technical proficiency. Story-wise the song’s recording is well known, as I woke up that morning, wrote the song as soon as I was awake, and pretty much drove straight to the studio. The version here not yet 2 hours old, and left un-tampered with
- 1.To Sheila
- 2.Ava Adore
- 3.Perfect
- 6.Tear
- 7.Crestfallen
- 9.Pug
- 11.Annie-Dog
- 12.Shame
- 14.For Martha
- 15.Blank Page
- 16.17