Information:
- Shame On You was inspired by Sebastian Faulk's
novel Birdsong (Which is about WWI).
The following quote from an interview
with I Like Music confirms this:
ILM: "Your single, Shame On You (to keep my love from me) is out
on June 18th. about conscription and war, how these men and women who
go off to war are leaving behind partners they will never marry and
children they will never have. Can you tell us how the song came about
and describe its whole vibe?"
Andrea: "I had just read the book Bird Song by Sebastian
Faulks, which is about war and obviously, it's so relevant today and
pretty much every day. I didn't know I was writing about it when I
started writing the song to be honest, as often happens with me, it
just comes along and then I know what I'm writing about... I was, as
everybody is, affected by photos you see in the papers of young people
looking out in their uniforms and they've been killed, and that one
person, the immense waste of it; gone in their 20s... the children they
won't have and the husband or wife they've left behind or won't marry,
and all the beautiful things in life that won't happen and the people
affected by that, so it's really about the immense waste of war, it's
just so sad."
Another interview
with Digital Spy also confirms this:
Question: "The single 'Shame On You' seems more political
than your previous work. What's it about?"
Andrea: "Mmm, what is it all about? What is it all about?
This is what it's all about: I had read the book Birdsong by Sebastian
Faulks, which is about World War One, but is obviously also relevant
to these times. The song is really about the waste of war, and all the
lives that war really does affect. When you see a picture - the woman
he won't marry or the man she won't marry, the children they won't
have, the grandchildren they won't have - you realize that there all
these different beautiful things in life that are just gone and for
what? That's basically what the song's about. The whole situation is
so powerful, isn't it, really? We've become so desensitised to these
images."
Written By:
- Andrea wrote this song for her Ten Feet High solo album.
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Lyrics:
You left me thinking what a bore
I'm always stuck inside
I've got a feeling there is more
Than I've been left behind
A lot of pain a lot of noise
That these four walls hide
Happy faces go to war
And dance upon the mines
Come, come join, come join, come join us
You're barely young, come join us
Shame on you, shame on you
Shame on you to keep my love from me
You planted me in foreign ground
A pen within a hand
At least I am not on my own
In hell I have a friend
And though I find the sin of shame
It isn't my crusade
Pretty faces in a war
Asleep in open graves
Come, come join, come join, come join us
You're barely young, come join us
You'll be a man, come join, come join us
You're big and strong, come join us
Shame on you, shame on you
Shame on you to keep my love from me
Shame on you, shame on you
Shame on you to keep my love from me
Close your eyes to see it
Unlock your heart to feel it
Changed his name to a number
But he's somebody's child
Shame on you, shame on you
Shame on you to keep my love from me
Shame on you (close your eyes to see it)
Shame on you (unlock your heart to feel it)
Shame on you (changed his name to a number)
But he's somebody's child
Shame on you (close your eyes to see it)
Shame on you (unlock your heart to feel it)
Shame on you (changed his name to a number)
To keep my love from me
Shame on you, shame on you...
*FADE OUT*
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