Robbie Williams

Gary Barlow

Both together

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 a bus

oh, and with your poster

thirty foot high at the

back of 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

and that's how they stay

oh, what a shame

Words come easy

when they're true

words come easy

when they're true

So, I got busy

throwing everybody

underneath a bus

and with your poster

thirty foot high at the

back of 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

Ooh-ooh-ooh

such a shame

what a shame