Evelyn "Champagne" King
Shame lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- R&B
- Length
- 4:39
(Shame)
(Shame)
Burning, you keep my whole body yearning
You got me so confused, it's a shame
Sometimes I think I'm going insane
But still I wanna stay
Wrapped into your arms is where I wanna be
(I wanna be) wanna be
Wrapped into your arms, that's my high (my high)
(Shame)
Ooh, my mother says, you're playing a game
And what you do to me is a (shame)
Ooh, gonna love you just the same
Mama just don't understand, oh, no
Wrapped in your arms is just where I wanna be
(Wanna be) wanna be
Wrapped into your arms, that's my high (my high)
I can't get enough, ooh, baby
Enough of that magic touch
Love is in my heart
Tearing the rules apart
So why should I be ashamed?
Only love can be to blame
If we lose our love, it's a (shame)
Ooh, wouldn't wanna live with the pain
Gonna stay forever
Wrapped into your arms is where I wanna be
(Wanna be) wanna be
Wrapped into your arms, that's my high (my high)
(Shame)
Ooh, only love can be to blame
If we lose our love, it's a (shame)
Ooh, I wouldn't wanna live with the pain
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Key vocabulary
- keep
- continue having; holdA1
- body
- physical personA1
- yearning
- strong desire
- ashamed
- feeling regretfulB2
- shame
- guilt or embarrassmentB2
- tearing
- pulling something apartB2
- wrapped
- covered with somethingB2
- arms
- upper limbs; weaponsA1
- baby
- very young childA1
- don't
- do notA1
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About this song
Evelyn “Champagne” King is an American R&B and disco singer from the Bronx and raised in Philadelphia, known for her charting singles from the late 1970s through the 1980s. She achieved major success with hits including “Shame,” “I’m In Love,” and “Love Come Down,” and later teamed with Martha Wash and Linda Clifford as The First Ladies of Disco.