"Shameless" lyrics
"Shameless"
Well I'm shamemeless when it comes to loving you
I'll do anything you want me to
I'll do anything at all
And I'm standing here for all the world to see
Oh baby that's what's left of me
Don't have very far to fall
You know now I'm not a man who's ever been
Insecure about the world I've been livin' in
I don't break easy I have my pride
But if you need to be satisfied
I'm shameless, oh honey I don't have a prayer
Every time I see you standin' there
I go down upon my knees
And I'm changin' swore I'd never compromise
Oh but you convinced me otherwise
I'll do anything you please
You see in all my life I've never found
What I couldn't resist what I couldn't turn down
I could walk away from anyone I ever knew
But I can't walk away from you
I have never let anything have this much control over me
I work too hard to call my life my own
And I've made myself a world and it's worked so perfectly
But it's your world now I can't refuse
I've never had so much to lose
Oh I'm shameless
You know it should be easy for a man who's strong
To say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong
I've never lost anything I've ever missed
But I've never been in love like this
It's out of my hands
I'm shameless, I don't have the power now
I don't want it anyhow
So I got to let it go
Oh I'm shameless, shameless as a man can be
You make a total fool of me
I just wanted to you to know
Oh I'm shameless
I just wanted you to know
Oh I'm shameless
Oh I'm down on my knees...shameless
This song was written by
Billy Joel for his album "Storm Front" (1989). He was inspired by
Jimi Hendrix. Joel said during a 1995 concert in Nuremberg, Germany, that he was grateful to Garth Brooks for presenting the song to country fans, many of which had never heard Joel's music before.
In the liner notes of his 1994 compilation album, "The Hits", Garth Brooks told about his version of Billy Joel's song, "One of his songs really captured me, a song called 'Shameless'. I kept watching it, and when he did not release it as a single, we contacted his people in the hopes that we could cut it." He added, "My hope is that Billy, as writer, hears this cut and says, 'Yeah, man, the guy's got balls.'"
Garth Brooks used pyrotechnics while performing this song live, which was unlike usual live country numbers on stage.
Billy Joel and Garth Brooks sang this song together during Joel's Last Play at Shea concerts in 2008.
The performance is featured on the live album "Live At Shea Stadium: The Concert".
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album: "Ropin' The Wind" (1991)