Dance of Shame

“Shame on you, Ocean Boy!”

Her words cut me like

A barbed verbal insult

“But, I…”

It was all I could say

“But you said we should dance.”

“I meant with each other, baby.”

Her tone made me stagger

I’d been dancing like Jagger

With a girl dressed in black

Like a passion attack.

“But we’ve never been lovers,

Always dancing with others!”

And she snapped back her head

And her look cut me dead.

“You’re so full of emotion,

Just a lusty wide ocean

And you don’t see my tears

When my hope disappears,”

And her eyes filled so quickly

I felt I was fainting.

I never had seen

How her love held her back

And the shame rolled across me like thundering black

And I stepped in to kiss her

A moment too late

As she slapped me and left me

In a moment of hate.

And she ran from the club

Carrying five years of pain

And the driver had no chance,

Tyres slid in the rain.

And I live with the knowledge

That her love was so pure

As I visit her grave every day I feel sure

That the shame I am feeling

It will always be there

For she loved me completely

And I just didn’t care.

I like this version (it could be the video.. tsk!)… I only just came across this, but I actually love it… makes me smile…it is such a fun version!

Not the original by Shirley and Co, which is here: