The Primitives

Been Hiding

Album: Let's Go Round Again • Second Wave Singles & Rarities 2011-2025 [2025]
Author: Amy Virginia Linton

I went to the shop

The shopkeeper said

"Just point at what you want"

I went to the shop

The shopkeeper's mad

So I'll think at the store front

I don't even know all that I know I should

But in the shop all the shopping's good

Just point at what you want

Pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam ah

I went to the playwright

Tried to get a part

To be a thespian

I went to the playwright

Just to get a part

A maid or a plebeian

I'll wear all black all day

You'll be my only friends

Benign eccentrics of a thespian

Well, I'd rather stay hidden

Pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam pam ah

Please help me, Dan Treacy

Please help me (uh)

Please help me

I've been hiding

Been hiding (uh)

I went to the courthouse

Went to the court

To see the magistrate

I went to the courthouse

Went into the court

In a haze of fey complaints

I don't even know what a magistrate does

But he took my money because

Because of the wonderful things that he does