Because of the Shame Lyrics

Lyric discussion by slowgoins 

Cover art for Because of the Shame lyrics by Against Me!

Does anyone know the story behind this song? I'm interested if Tom has revealed anything about it. I've had a relationship that was crazy intimate, but looking back on how things ended I find that the line "I'm not sure what I meant to you then so I'm not sure what I owe you now" really resonates with me.

in an article in the new Spin, he talks about how a good friend of his was killed, and at the funeral, her mother told him that her daughter was very hurt because the thought that he wrote "Thrash Unreal" about her. He went home, didn't sleep for days and wrote this song to her, is dead friend...........hope this helps.

also, it sounds a whole lot like Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender" because the two of them used to listen to the Boss together.......