Shame
[Verse 1: Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow]
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
[Pre-Chorus 1: Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow]
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?
[Chorus: 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
Oh, what a shame
[Verse 2: Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow]
So I got busy throwing everybody
Underneath the bus, oh
And with your poster thirty foot high
At the back of Toys-R-Us
[Pre-Chorus 2: 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?
[Chorus: 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
Oh, what a shame
[Bridge: Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow]
Words come easy when they're true
Words come easy when they're true
[Verse 3: Robbie Williams & Both]
So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the 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
[Chorus: 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
[Outro: 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, haha
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
[Pre-Chorus 1: Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow]
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?
[Chorus: 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
Oh, what a shame
[Verse 2: Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow]
So I got busy throwing everybody
Underneath the bus, oh
And with your poster thirty foot high
At the back of Toys-R-Us
[Pre-Chorus 2: 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?
[Chorus: 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
Oh, what a shame
[Bridge: Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow]
Words come easy when they're true
Words come easy when they're true
[Verse 3: Robbie Williams & Both]
So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the 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
[Chorus: 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
[Outro: 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, haha