(intro) Bb Cm Bb/D
        Eb Bb/D Cm7

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  Well there's three versions of this story mine & yours and then the truth
Bb    Cm     Bb/D                             Eb         Bb/D                    C
  And we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood, then our youth
F7                                       Gm                        (Bb/F)           Eb                                Bb Cm Bb/D
Out of some sentimental gain I wanted you to feel my pain, but it came back return to sender
F7                            Gm                           (Bb/F)               Eb                                                     (Fsus4 F)
I read your mind and tried to call, my tears could fill the Albert Hall, is this the  of sweet surrender?

                Bb    Cm7     Eb  F
What a shame we never listened
                       Bb  Cm7   Eb  F
I told you through the television
                   Bb          Cm7      Eb   F
And all that went away was the price we paid
               Gm            C
People spend a lifetime this way
          Fsus4
Oh what a shame.

Bb   Cm    Bb/D                    Eb   Bb/D      Cm7
  So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus
Bb    Cm        Bb/D                  Eb                          C
 And with your poster 30 foot at the back of Toys-R-Us
F7                                      Gm                     (Bb/F)                                                  Bb   Cm  Bb/D
I wrote a letter in my mind, but the words were so unkind, about a man I can't remember
F7                         Gm                         ( Bb/F )  Eb                F        (Fsus4 F)
I don't recall the reasons why, I must have meant them at the time, is this the sound of surrender?

                Bb    Cm7     Eb  F
What a shame we never listened
                       Bb  Cm7   Eb  F
I told you through the television
                   Bb          Cm7      Eb   F
And all that went away was the price we paid
               Gm            C
People spend a lifetime this way
    Gm              C
And that's how they stay
          F
Oh what a shame.

Bb    Gm   C     Cm7  F       Bb
Words come easy, when they're true
Bb    Gm   C     Cm7  F       Bb
Words come easy, when they're true

Bb         Cm7           Eb        F              Bb
  So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus
              Cm7       Eb          F              Bb
And with your poster 30 foot at the back of Toys-R-Us
           Cm7            Eb                F
Fsus4 F
Now we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood then our youth.

                Bb    Cm7     Eb  F
What a shame we never listened
                       Bb  Cm7   Eb  F
I told you through the television
                   Bb          Cm7      Eb   F
And all that went away was the price we paid
               Gm            C
People spend a lifetime this way
    Gm              C
And that's how they stay
               Gm            C
People spend a lifetime this way
          F             Bb   Cm Bb/D   Eb
C
Oh what a shame, what a shame
Cm                   Bb
Such a shame, what a shame