TUNING: Standard: EADGBE
Capo: 3. Fret
tabbed by Steffen

Pick only the chords of the Intro/Outro ( G am7 G/B    Cadd9 G/B  A7 am7) with an open high e string! (last string) as open chords

Intro: pick 2 times: G5 am7 G5    C5 G5 am7 

1. Verse:
G5     am7          G5                              C5   G5  
Well there's three version of this story, mine, and yours and then 
    am7
the truth.
G5   am7    G5                             C5    G5       A5
And we can put it down to circumstance our childhood then our youth.
D5                  E5                           C5
Out of sentimental gain I wanted you to feel my pain,
                             G5 am7 G5
But it came back return to sender.
D5                            E5
I read your mind and tried to call,
                                C5
My tears could fill the Albert hall.
                              D5
Is this the sound of sweet surrender?

Refrain:
                   G5   am7    C5  
What a shame we never listened.
   D5                   G5   am7   C5
I told you through the television.
     D5             G5            am7       C5  D5
And all that went away was the price we paid.
               E5             A5
People spend a life time this way.
              D5
Oh what a shame.

2. Verse:
G5  am7    G5                    C5 G5    am7
So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus.
    G5    am7      G5                        C5  G5    A5
Oh, and with your poster 30 foot high at the back of Toy-R-Us.
D5                     E5                           C5      
I wrote a letter in my mind but the words were so unkind 
                        G5 am7 G5
about a man I can't remember.
D5                         E5
I don't recall the reasons why.
                               C5
I must have meant them at the time.
                              D5
Is this the sound of sweet surrender?


Refrain: 
                  G5   am7     C5  
What a shame we never listened.
   D5                   G5   am7    C5
I told you through the television.
     D5             G5            am7       C5  D5
And all that went away was the price we paid.
                E5            A5      E5               A5
People spend a life time this way and that's how they stay.
               D5
Oh what a shame.

  G5    E5    A5  am7   D5      G5
Words come easy when they're true.
  G5    E5    A5  am7   D5      G5
Words come easy when they're true.
G5        am7            C5          D5            G5
So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus.
                  am7       C5                D5            G5
Oh, and with your poster 30 foot high at the back of Toy-R-Us.
           am7             C5               D5
Now we can put it down to circumstance our childhood then our youth.

Refrain:
                  G5   am7     C5  
What a shame we never listened.
   D5                   G5   am7    C5
I told you through the television.
     D5             G5            am7       C5  D5
And all that went away was the price we paid.
               E5             A5
People spend a life time this way.
     E5              A5
And that?s how they stay
               E5            A5
People spend a lifetime this way
             D5
Oh what a shame

Outro:     G5 am7 G5    C5 G5  A5 am7                 G5
What a shame              Oh, oh, oh Such a shame, what a shame