Shame
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 pay
People spend a lifetime this way
Oh what a shame
Robbie Williams:
So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus
Gary Barlow:
Oh! And with your poster 30ft
high at the back of Toys-R-Us
Robbie Williams:
I wrote a letter in my mind
but the words were so unkind
About a man I can’t remember
Gary Barlow:
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 pay
People spend a lifetime this way
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 the bus,
And with your poster 30ft 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 listened
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
Ooooo, oooh, ohhh
Such a shame, what a shame
pitiful shame, real shame, and
stuff, proper shame, shame shame
