Deceives The Eye lyrics

Artist  : Madness 
Song : Deceives The Eye
 


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...