Decieves The Eye lyrics

Song information

Artist: Madness
Album: One Step Beyond

Lyrics

In the earliest days of my shoplifting career
You could safely say I was filled with fear
It was nail biting work from the very start
But several quick sucesses soon gave me heart
After a while I could pick or nick or steal
Some shirts some trousers and a few lps
No-one ever stopped me, they didn't seem to care
It sometimes seemed to me that there was no-one there

Then a fine summers day my mates and me
Set off down the westend on our usual spree
Things were as normal for an hour or so
Then my nimble hands were a bit too slow
Two store detectives made a fast approach
One grabbed my jacket (you're nicked!)
The other grabbed my throat
So they caught me at last, one said with joy:
"You'll have to do some time, my light fingered boy!"

If only I'd remembered my common sense
They captured me red-handed with evidence
If I go to the manager and say I'm sorry
Maybe he'll forgive me for my youthful folly

But what will me social worker say
If I don't come home today?
He'll give me a clout!
What if they don't let me out?
I told him I'm on me own!
Don't they understand?
I'm from a broken home!

I'll tell them I'm the product of a broken home
And I always went out on my own
Was it too late to say I'd pay
And I'll never steal again 'till the end of my days?
Because I have no friends to call as such
Money and posessions I did not have much
So I started to steal in order to get by
The quickness of the hand deceives the eye
Deceives the eye the eye the eye..

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