Oh Susannah
Shame
(by Suzie Ungerleider)


Tried to walk beside me
I beat you to the ground
I strung these reins around your head
I rode you till you drowned.

Tried to be your savior
Though I'm the one to blame
The one that heals, the one that kills
are one and the same.

Chorus:
Oh take me down,
I'm going to bury my shame
Oh take me down,
down to bury my shame

In my book of letters
I keep a photograph
It captures time so perfectly
when I would make you laugh.

But what's that in the corner
of your eyes, my dear?
Is that look one of love
or is it one of fear?

Chorus

Once you walked beside me
but now I walk alone.
Committed you to memory
with all the rest I've known.

Pull myself together,
hold my head up high.
I'm going to bury my shame
so that I'll learn to cry.


SOCAN, 1996; Copyright 1997
Stella Records.