What a Shame - Shane Smith & the Saints

You are my everything I cannot forget You are all in my life, I'm feeling so sad You make me feel myself, It's more than a dream But since you broke my heart I know what I've been What a shame Don't tell me it's just a game I never can forget your eyes I feel so lonely, I cannot live without you What a shame (What a shame) (Just a game) (Your blue eyes) Why don't you show me the way, The way to your heart 'Cause I feel deep inside That we'll never part (What a shame) Don't tell me it's just a game (Just a game) I never can forget your eyes (Your blue eyes) I feel so lonely, I cannot live without you Since you've gone I long for your love, Since you've gone I cry for you When I wish You come back to me Till eternity Don't tell me it's just a game (Just a game) I never can forget your eyes (Your blue eyes) I feel so lonely, I cannot live without you

You know my name, You Know my game, You know my face, But you don't know me. My heart is here, Your heart is there, They're so near, But you don't love me... What a shame, What a shame, What a shame, What a shame, You know my name, You Know my game, You know my face, But you don't know me. My heart is here, Your heart is there, They're so near, But you don't love me... No, no, no. What a shame, What a shame, What a shame, What a shame.

I was grinding through my day gig Stackin' cutouts at the Strand When in walks Franny from NYU We were quite an item back then We talked about her films and shows and CDs And I don't know what else She said, yeah, Hollywood's been good to me But tell me - how about yourself CHORUS: I'm still working on that novel But I'm just about to quit 'Cause I'm worrying about the future now Or maybe this is it It's not all that I thought it would be What a shame about me She said, talk to me, do you ever see Anybody else from our old crew Bobby Dakine won the Bunsen Prize Now he's coming out with something new Alan owns a chain of Steamer Heavens And Barry is the software king And somebody told me in the early 80's You were gonna be the Next Big Thing CHORUS: Well now that was just a rumor But I guess I'm doin' fine Three weeks out of the rehab Living one day at a time Sneaking up on the new century What a shame about me What a shame about me I'm thinking of a major Jane Street sunrise And the goddess on the fire escape was you We both ran out of small talk The connection seemed to go dead I was about to say, hey, have a nice life When she touched my hand and said: You know I just had this great idea This could be very cool Why don't we grab a cab to my hotel And make believe we're back at our old school CHORUS: I said babe you look delicious And you're standing very close But like this is Lower Broadway And you're talking to a ghost Take a good look it's easy to see What a shame about me What a shame about me

The hard times blow in three so it seems At least that's the way this year has seemed to toll And I've been handed things that others sweat and bleed for I'm undeserving, I'm on a pedestal I wish I knew you back before you had to leave You know I, I wish I had truly felt your light And I've been blessed in ways that almost sickens my mind I wish you could run this right, you deserve my life And Lord I wonder why it had to be her you know To me it seemed to early to be right The brightest colors in the sky they dance at dawn But soon enough they're gonna fade tonight They always fade to night I wish I knew you back before you had to leave You know I, I wish I had truly felt your light And I've been blessed in ways that almost sickens my mind I wish you could run this right, you deserve my life And all the seasons seem to blow in on and change It's like the leaves they make their colors, then they fall And this October came with more than just a breeze It's like she made her change and blew above us all She blew above us all I wish I knew her back before she had to leave You know I, I wish I had truly felt her light And I've been blessed in ways that almost sickens my mind I wish you could run this right, you deserve it I wish I knew you back before you had to leave You know I, I wish I had truly felt your light And I've been blessed in ways that almost sickens my mind I wish you could run this right, you deserve my life

Rose to rose, you drink it all in As fast as you can, dying to win God only knows what you're looking for Search high and low, let me help you find it Hummingbird, don't fly so far away I think the answers you seek are right underneath your wings If you'd only slow down enough To breathe my girl, let go of the ways of this world I got the love that you need Yeah, I've got the love you need Oh Baby, take a minute, take a little while, and look around And every now and then just let your feet touch the ground God only knows where you're flying to But you're not alone, babe, I'm right behind you Hummingbird, don't fly so far away I think the answers you seek are right underneath your wings If you'd only slow down enough To breathe my girl, let go of the ways of this world I got the love that you need Yeah babe, I've got the love you need

Hum hum Hum hum That eastern sun is soon to rise Soon to bring another fight I bet she'll bring some darker storms ahead The wind it lifts the desert sand It sings a song of the elder man The name he bares will echo on though time We bet big and lost the hand We pressed on the best we can We moved on yelling Ohhhhh Ohh Gernimo ohhhhwow Ohh Gernimo ohhhhwow We've been running way too long On dying dreams and delta songs We broke down south of any kind of hope we had From time to time you catch that break A sting of that luck, we'll find our way We'll be right back at it moving on though the night And im just another man I press on the best i can I press on yelling Ohhhhh Ohh Gernimo ohhhhwow Ohh Gernimo ohhhhwow Hum hum Hum hum

I had a a brother, who wasn't from my family We worked a ranch by the border, where the rain cloud's never seen And old Rocco was a ranch hand, he got fired from our boss man Now he works a 'dozer in Eagle Pass I ain't seen him in a long time, I wonder how he's gettin' by And I wish our fate sometimes could take us back He said, "your life is a canvas, you paint some everyday And when you think you've got it all figured out In your head you know the Man's got your final say Look back on all your memories, if we go our separate ways Don't forget your life's a canvas, we might get painted back someday" Rollin' barbed wire, and killin' time You wake the sunrise, and work 'til 9:00 Just like the sunset on the ocean, the light just fades away You see the stars shine in the desert, just before the break of day And then the wind throws me a memory, of a L.A. girl I loved You know she left me for the sunset, when she said she'd had enough And as the sweat rolls through my work Glove, ask me "what are you doin' here?" Could she love you for a lifetime, and not even shed a tear? I bet she'd ride by Arizona, when them mountains all turn black Question faith down at some crossroad, drinkin' from a paper sack I've lost two buddies from two drunken nights And that alone is tough They're probably in some better place, but man it's gettin' rough It's gettin' rough It's gettin' rough He said, "your life is a canvas, you paint some everyday And when you think you've got it all figured out In your head you know the Man's got your final say And look back on all your memories, if we go our separate ways Don't forget your life's a canvas, we might get painted back someday"