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Shame Lyrics
Well there's three versions of this story
Mine and yours and then the truth
Now 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 listen
I told you through the television
And all that went away was the price we pay
People spend a lifetime this way
Oh what a shame
So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus
And with your poster thirty foot high at the back at 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 listen
I told you through the television
And all that went away was the price we pay
People spend a lifetime this way
That's how they stay
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 thirty foot high at the back at Toys'r'us
Now we can put it down to circumstance
Our childhood then our youth
What a shame we never listen
I told you through the television
And all that went away was the price we pay
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
Such a shame
What a shame
Pitiful shame
Real shame
Mine and yours and then the truth
Now we can put it down to circumstance
Our childhood then our youth
I wanted you to feel my pain
But it came back return to sender
My tears could fill the Albert Hall
Is this the sound of sweet surrender?
I told you through the television
And all that went away was the price we pay
People spend a lifetime this way
Oh what a shame
And with your poster thirty foot high at the back at Toys'r'us
I wrote a letter in my mind
But the words were so unkind
About a man I can't remember
I must have meant them at the time
Is this the sound of sweet surrender?
I told you through the television
And all that went away was the price we pay
People spend a lifetime this way
That's how they stay
What a shame
Words come easy, when they're true
And with your poster thirty foot high at the back at Toys'r'us
Now we can put it down to circumstance
Our childhood then our youth
I told you through the television
And all that went away was the price we pay
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
Such a shame
What a shame
Pitiful shame
Real shame
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This song has moved me even since it came out. I think there could not be any better way for two grown ups to reconcile after such a long grudge. They both admit their faults and move on, not without looking back with a little bit of melancholy because of what was lost. Nice, easy, funny tune about making amends with your past.