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Intro

2x):

Well there’s three versions of this story mine &

yours and then the truth

And we can put it down to circumstance,

 our childhood, then our youth

Out of some sentimental gain I wanted you to feel my pain,

 but it came back return to sender

I read your mind and tried to call, my tears could fill the Albert Hall,

 is this the sound of sweet surrender?

 What a shame we never listened

 I told you through the television

 And all that went away was the price we paid

 People spend a lifetime this way

 Oh what a shame.

So I got busy throwing everybody

underneath the bus

And with your poster 30 foot high at the

back of Toys-R-Us

I wrote a letter in my mind, but the words were so unkind,

 about a man I can’t remember

I don’t recall the reasons why, I must have meant them at the time,

 is this the sound of sweet surrender?

 What a shame we never listened

 I told you through the television

 And all that went away was the price we paid

 People spend a lifetime this way

 And that’s how they stay

 Oh what a shame.

Words come easy, when they’re true

Words come easy, when they’re true

So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus

 And with your poster 30 foot high at the back of Toys-R-Us

 Now we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood then our youth.

 What a shame we never listened

 I told you through the television

 And all that went away was the price we paid

 People spend a lifetime this way

 And that’s how they stay

 People spend a lifetime this way

 Oh what a shame, what a shame

Such a shame, what a shame