Secrets

Verse

I went to the shed for a shovel.

Started to dig a hole.

I wanted to bury my troubles

To ease my tortured soul.

I found bone after bone after bone.

Started to take a form.

I wanted to stop but I couldn’t

I kept on finding more.

Pre Chorus

Secrets that I’d hidden

Skeletons from the past.

Out here in the open.

They’re coming out at last.

Chorus

Secrets, secrets, secrets

Secrets of the past.

Verse

I pieced them together one by one

And gave each one a name.

There was Avarice, guilt and anger

Reasons to feel ashamed.

They were part of a larger family

I’d laid away to rest.

Now I’m out here digging up old bones

As a way to confess.

Pre Chorus

Secrets that I’d hidden

Skeletons from the past.

Out here in the open.

They’re coming out at last.

Chorus

Secrets, secrets, secrets

Secrets of the past.

Bridge

You might think you’ve got them buried

But they’ll come back some day.

Probably when you least expect

They’ll come out out to play.

Verse

They’ll dance about pointing a finger

The way your conscience does.

They’ll lay the weight of the world on you.

Bring up more dreadful stuff.

You can bury them, cover them up

But a day’s gonna come

When somebody starts digging around

And find out what’s been done.

Pre Chorus

Secrets that I’d hidden

Skeletons from the past.

Out here in the open.

They’re coming out at last.

Chorus

Secrets, secrets, secrets

Secrets of the past.