Intro:
Bb Cm Bb/D
Eb Bb/D Cm

Bb     Cm            Bb/D                     Eb
    Cm
  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
       ( F4 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
          F4
Oh what a shame.


Bb   Cm    Bb/D                     Eb   Bb/D      Cm
  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 ) Eb
         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        ( F4 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
F4 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


csmager 08/2010