Shame (2002 Digital Remaster)-The Motels

[00:00.00] [00:24.92]Well there's three versions of this story mine, yours and then the truth [00:32.36]And we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood, then our youth [00:39.79]Out of some sentimental gain I wanted you to feel my pain, [00:45.13]but it came back return to sender [00:49.73]I read your mind and tried to call, my tears could fill the Albert Hall, [00:54.97]is this the sound of sweet surrender? [01:00.30] [01:01.26]What a shame we never listened [01:05.60]I told you through the television [01:10.40]And all that went away was the price we paid [01:15.92]People spend a lifetime this way [01:20.94]Oh what a shame [01:23.62] [01:24.78]So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus [01:32.32]And with your poster 30 foot at the back of Toys-R-Us [01:39.78]I wrote a letter in my mind, but the words were so unkind, [01:45.11]about a man I can't remember [01:49.96]I don't recall the reasons why, I must have meant them at the time, [01:54.87]is this the sound of sweet surrender? [01:59.25] [02:00.62]What a shame we never listened [02:05.42]I told you through the television [02:10.36]And all that went away was the price we paid [02:15.67]People spend a lifetime this way [02:21.84]And that's how they stay [02:25.99]Oh what a shame. [02:28.44] [02:29.46]Words come easy, when they're true [02:39.38]Words come easy, when they're true [02:48.74] [02:49.72]So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus [02:54.88]And with your poster 30 foot at the back of Toys-R-Us [02:59.97]Now we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood then our youth. [03:06.93] [03:08.19]What a shame we never listened [03:12.85]I told you through the television [03:17.98]And all that went away was the price we paid [03:23.17]People spend a lifetime this way [03:29.32]And that's how they stay [03:33.28]People spend a lifetime this way [03:38.54]Oh what a shame,what a shame [03:49.55]Such a shame, what a shame [03:53.78]