Song Description

...hmmmm.....this is somewhat of an updated, modern day version of the old classic song "House of the Rising Sun", but from a female perspective...and with significant plot changes. Here we hear about a young lady who's life/world falls apart when her lover leaves her and she remains within her own house of shame where the very walls drip with her painful existence. It was also a great honor to be able to collaborate with Cali Tucker, the niece of country star Tanya Tucker to sing the vocals on this recording.

Lyrics

House of Shame
(c) 2012 Evan Zappa/Nery Bauer

It hurt so bad when you left me it turned my insides out
The searing pain morbid self blame the shrieks I'm screaming out
I cannot soothe there is no balm to wrestle calm these nerves
I'm drained, I'm spent, no energy, I've lost all my reserves

(chorus)
House of Shame, its you I blame, I kick you in the teeth
I'll burn you down, bury your crown, my children I bequeath
This house of shame this place of pain with shadows all around
This recalcitrant vagabond of loveless silent sounds
House of Shame, its you I blame, I kick you in the teeth
I'll burn you down, bury your crown, my children I bequeath
This house of shame this place of pain with shadows all around
This recalcitrant vagabond of loveless silent sounds

Roofless adobe whose dreams corrode don't know how to behave
It's raining sins in rusty bins beneath those I forgave
The hollowness the shallowness the walls that cannot breathe
The growing mounting tragedy of Satan's last reprieve

(repeat chorus)

(bridge)
Shriek oh shriek the fathoms reek
Decaying mortal flesh
Thunderbolts abnormal folks
Who testify in jest
Who testify in jest

(repeat chorus)