Intro: BbCmBb/DEbBb/DCm7BbCmBb/DEbCm7
Well there?s three versions of this story mine & yours and then the truth
BbCmBb/DEbBb/DC
And we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood, then our youth
F7Gm (Bb/F)EbBbCmBb/D
Out of some sentimental gain I wanted you to feel my pain, but it came back return to sender
F7Gm (Bb/F)Eb (Fsus4F)
I read your mind and tried to call, my tears could fill the Albert Hall, is this the of sweet surrender?
BbCm7EbF
What a shame we never listened
BbCm7EbF
I told you through the television
BbCm7EbF
And all that went away was the price we paid
GmC
People spend a lifetime this way
Fsus4
Oh what a shame.
BbCmBb/DEbBb/DCm7
So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus
BbCmBb/DEbC
And with your poster 30 foot at the back of Toys-R-Us
F7Gm (Bb/F)BbCmBb/D
I wrote a letter in my mind, but the words were so unkind, about a man I can?t remember
F7Gm ( Bb/F ) EbF (Fsus4F)
I don?t recall the reasons why, I must have meant them at the time, is this the sound of surrender?
BbCm7EbF
What a shame we never listened
BbCm7EbF
I told you through the television
BbCm7EbF
And all that went away was the price we paid
GmC
People spend a lifetime this way
GmC
And that?s how they stay
F
Oh what a shame.
BbGmCCm7FBb
Words come easy, when they?re true
BbGmCCm7FBb
Words come easy, when they?re true
BbCm7EbFBb
So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus
Cm7EbFBb
And with your poster 30 foot at the back of Toys-R-Us
Cm7EbFFsus4F
Now we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood then our youth.
BbCm7EbF
What a shame we never listened
BbCm7EbF
I told you through the television
BbCm7EbF
And all that went away was the price we paid
GmC
People spend a lifetime this way
GmC
And that?s how they stay
GmC
People spend a lifetime this way
FBbCmBb/DEbC
Oh what a shame, what a shame
CmBb
Such a shame, what a shame
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.