Supertramp - Hide In Your Shell (Audio)

Lyrics

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
(You've got demons in your closet)
And you're screaming out to stop it
(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 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

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
(What you see is just illusion)
You're surrounded by confusion
(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
I wanna know
Oh I've got to know

I wanna know you
I wanna know you
Well let me know you
I wanna feel you
Oh I wanna touch you
Please let me near you
Let me near you
Can you hear what I'm sayin'?
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
(So whatcha gonna take it to?)
Oh there's a place I know the way to
(So whatcha gonna make it do?)
A place there is no need to
(So what's he gonna)
To feel you
(So what's he gonna)
To feel that you are alone
(So what's he gonna do?)

I wanna feel you
(So whatcha gonna take it to?)
I know exactly what you're feelin'
(So whatcha gonna make it do?)
Cos all your troubles are within you
(So what's he gonna)
So begin to
(So what's he gonna)
See that I'm just bleeding too
(So what's he gonna do?)

Oh, love me, love you, loving is the way to
(So whatcha gonna take it to?)
Help me, help you
(So whatcha gonna make it do?)
Why must we be so cool?
(So what's he gonna)
Oh so cool
(So what's he gonna)
Oh, we're such damn fools
(So what's he gonna do?)

[johnd]

this album is the greatest masterpiece of supertramps history

[blairflairontheair]

One of the most amazing tunes of supertramp. I had to hide in my shell from abuse and this song has protected me all my life

[eduardofigueiradasilva]

I heard it first in 1978 and it touched my soul forever.

[jamesmcnemar]

My second oldest brother was moving out of the house for the second time. He gave me a double cassette deck and a SUPERTRAMP album along with a new band called QUEEN. What gifts!! Thanks Terry.

[luismiguelgarronrevaliente]

Without question it's one of the greatest songs of all time by any band or solo artist. ❤

[dorcasbass]

s a victim of 1960's kids home abuse when I first heard this song 30 yrs later..., the floodgates opened, and the healing process finally begun. £0 0d years later I was strong enough to help another. Thankyou S8upertramp!

[Savahax]

Best song ever written. Let's not kid ourselves.

[kplkpl]

My girlfriend bought me this album in a cassette for my car and I played it relentlessly. It was the first thing she ever bought me. We have our 40th wedding anniversary very soon.

[williamthelast]

No matter if at 62 yo, I'm always hidind in my shell. I have two sons, I live my life. But with this song, maybe I will get out.... To see if love, peace and understanding are back at last. 5 stars song indeed !!!!

[tonkatrucker]

When one realizes, that this whole album.. is the story of one man' s life... and the 2 main voices are him.. and his sub-conscious.. ( this song).. and the duelling and troubles they go through in life... It makes this masterpiece of music.... into a MASTERPIECE OF MUSIC. Long before PF's The Wall.. this is the first chronological album... and it is absolutely breath taking. This particular song.. makes me as the sub conscious is trying to " convince" his master.. of the choices in life.... Amazing stuff.

[redsquirrel]

I'm lost for words. All these years after first listening to this masterpiece it still sounds magnificent.

[b-music]

One of the best songs in rock history -
I listened to this iconic album at least one million times

[lukehallinan]

Heard this as a young teenager in mid 70’s and have listened to it decade after decade and still am in awe at its brilliance. Truly a masterpiece👏

[johnny]

this album is the ultimate masterpiece of supertramps history

[Chrisamusic]

I don't think I've ever heard a more perfect and beautiful chorus. The variant at the end, with the sax coming in is just magnificent. Wow.

[slyspy]

I bought this when it came out back in 74 and I still play it today ....now that's staying power !

[kaliboo]

Reminds me of being a teen..This was my song which summed up my teenage angst.

[rodolfocastaneda]

That "So what you gonna do?" always hits me hard...

[victoriacorcoran]

Crime of the Century....awesome album.

[krollpeter]

Absolutely stunning production, and the sound some of these bands in the 70s created is just wow!