Observations placeholder
Hodgson, Roger – Crime of the Century - Hide in your shell
Identifier
027549
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
"People often write to me and say that this song in particular strikes a chord in them. Maybe it's because I was going through a difficult time in my life when I wrote it that people are able to relate to it. Our teenage years seem to be difficult ones for many of us, especially if one is sensitive. I know there is a tendency to want to Hide in Your Shell." ~ Roger Hodgson
A description of the experience
"Hide In Your Shell"
Hide in your shell
'Cause the world is out to bleed you for a ride
What will you gain making your life a little longer?
Heaven or Hell
Was the journey cold that gave you eyes of steel?
Shelter behind painting your mind and playing joker
Too frightening to listen to a stranger
Too beautiful to put your pride in danger
You're waiting for someone to understand you
But you've got demons in your closet
And you're screaming out to stop it
Saying life's begun to cheat you
Friends are out to beat you
Grab on to what you scramble for
Don't let the tears linger on inside now
'Cause it's sure time you gained control
If I can help you, if I can help you
If I can help you, just let me know
Well, let me show you the nearest signpost
To get your heart back and on the road
If I can help you, if I can help you
If I can help you, just let me know
All through the night
As you lie awake and hold yourself so tight
What do you need, a second-hand movie star to tell you?
I, as a boy
I believed the saying the cure for pain was love
How would it be if you could see the world through my eyes?
Too frightening the fire's becoming colder
Too beautiful to think you're getting older
You're looking for someone to give an answer
What you see is just illusion
You're surrounded by confusion
Saying life's begun to cheat you
Friends are out to beat you
Grab on to what you can scramble for
Don't let the tears linger on inside now
Because it's sure time you gain control
If I can help you, if I can help you
If I can help you, just let me know
Well, let me show you the nearest signpost
To get your heart back and on the road
If I can help you, if I can help you
If I can help you, just let me know
I wanna know, I wanna know
I wanna know
I got to know
I wanna know you
I wanna know you
Well let me know you
I wanna feel you
I wanna touch you
Please let me near you
Let me near you
Can you hear what I'm saying?
Well I'm hoping, I'm dreamin', I'm prayin'
I know what you're thinkin'
See what you're seein'
Never ever let yourself go
Hold yourself down, hold yourself down
Why d'ya hold yourself down?
Why don't you listen, you can trust me
(So what you gonna take?)
There's a place I know the way to
(So what you gonna make?)
A place there is no need to feel
(So what's he gonna?)
To feel
(So what's he gonna?)
That you're all alone
(So what's he gonna do?)
Hear me
(So what you gonna take?)
I know exactly what you're feelin'
(So what you gonna make?)
'Cause all your troubles are within you
(So what's he gonna?)
They're all within you
(So what's he gonna?)
Please begin to see that I'm just bleeding too
(So what's he gonna do?)
Love me, love you
(So what you gonna take?)
Loving is the way to help me, help you
(So what you gonna make?)
Why must we be so cool, oh so cool?
(So what's he gonna?)
Oh, we're such damn fools
(So what's he gonna do?)
So what you gonna take?
So what you gonna make?
So what's he gonna?
So what's he gonna?
So what's he gonna do?