R: Well there's three versions of this story
mine and yours and then the truth
G: And we can put it down to circumstance
our childhood then our youth
R: Out of sentimental gain
I wanted you to feel my pain
But it came back return to sender
G: I read your mind and tried to call
My tears could fill the Albert hall
Is this the sound of sweet surrender
Both: 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 life time this way
Oh what a shame
R: So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus
Oh
G: and with your poster 30 foot high
at the back of Toy-R-Us
Both: 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 life time 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
Oh and with your poster 30 foot high
at the back of Toy-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
Wu
Such a shame what a shame