Well there's three version of this story Mine, and 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 life time this way Oh what a shame So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus Oh, 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 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 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 Ooh, ooh, ooh Such a shame, what a shame Pitiful shame, real shame And stuff, proper shame (Shame, shame, shame)