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

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What a shame we never listened 
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I told you through the television 
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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 
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 And with your poster 30 foot at the back of Toys-R-Us 
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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 
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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 
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C 
Oh what a shame, what a shame 
Cm                   Bb 
Such a shame, what a shame