S H A M E

Pride is a blanket that you crawl under to hide

Put forth your honor as shield to guard your pride

Your guilt and shamefulness incite your need to blame

A loss of instincts, which just upheld your name

  Forced by your shame

Drowning in arrogance, and knowing what is right

Helpless to witness independence taking flight

The strings that pull you have not taken on your name

Release the simple lock that keeps you in this game

  Forced by your shame

Play at blame

You just make yourself tame

You say

Your independence, your shame

A void of emptiness that’s begging to be filled

Lacking the substance, or the fight to pay the bill

Begging to nothing, and to no one for a loan

Your wish is granted, and once more you should have known
 

  The cost of change

Play at blame

You just make yourself tame

You say

Your independence, your shame