"Shame" lyrics

[Robbie Williams:]
Well, there's three versions of this story
Mine, and yours, and then the truth

[Gary Barlow:]
Now we can put it down to circumstance
Our childhood, then our youth

[Robbie Williams:]
Out of some sentimental gain
I wanted you to feel my pain
But it came back return to sender

[Gary Barlow:]
I read your mind and tried to call
My tears could fill the Albert Hall
Is this the sound of sweet surrender?

[Both:]
What a shame we never listened
I told you through the television
And all that went away was the price we paid
People spend a lifetime this way
Oh, what a shame

[Robbie Williams:]
So I got busy throwing everybody
Underneath the bus, oh

[Gary Barlow:]
And with your poster 30 foot high
At the back of Toys-R-Us

[Both (Robbie Williams):]
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?)

[Both:]
What a shame we never listened
I told you through the television
And all that went away was the price we paid
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

[Robbie Williams:]
So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus

[Both:]
And with your poster 30 foot high at the back of Toys-R-Us
Now we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood, then our youth

[Both (Robbie Williams) {Gary Barlow}:]
What a shame we never listened
I told you through the television
And all that went away was the price we paid
(People spend a lifetime this way)
And that's how they stay
{People spend a lifetime this way}
Oh, what a shame

[Both (Gary Barlow):]
What a shame
(Uh-uh-uh, such a shame, what a shame)
Pitiful shame, real shame, powerful stuff, proper shame
Shame, shame, shame, shame, ha-ha