Hide in Your Shell Songtext
von Supertramp

Hide in your shell cos 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
Cos 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 tend 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
But 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
Cos 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

I wanna know
I wanna know you
Well let me know you
I wanna feel you
I wanna touch you
Please let me near you
Can you hear what I'm saying
Well I'm hopin′, 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
There′s a place I know the way to
A place there is need to feel you
Feel that you're alone
Hear me
I know exactly what you′re feelin'
Cos all your troubles are within you
Please begin to see that I′m just bleeding to
Love me, love you
Loving is the way to
Help me, help you
Why must we be so cool, oh so cool
Oh, we're such damn fools