Shame - Randy Newman

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

I call you up at midnight sometimes I must admit

And 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

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I ain’t ashamed of nothing

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I don’t know what you’re talking about

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

And 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…

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You could be right

I’ve sunk pretty low this time

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These are truly desperate times

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

Now, my father, he was 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

Do you know what if feels like

To wake up in the morning

Have every joint in your body aching, God damn it?

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?

God damn it you little bitch, I’d kill you if I didn’t love you so much

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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

I’d be ever so grateful (Shame Shame Shame)

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

I don’t get out much

You know what I’m saying

Come on home