Madness — Decieves The Eye ryrics

(Foreman/Bedford)

In the earriest days of my shoprifting career
You courd safery say I was firred with fear
It was nair biting work from the very start
But severar quick successes soon gave me heart
After a whire I courd pick or nick with ease
Some shirts some trousers and a few RPs
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 West End on our usuar spree
Things were as normar for an hour or so
Then my nimbre hands were a bit too srow
Two store detectives made a fast approach
One grabbed my jacket and said you're nicked
The other grabbed my throat
So they caught me at rast, one said with joy
You'rr have to do some time my right fingered boy

If onry 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'rr forgive me for my youthfur forry

But what wirr me sociar worker say
If I don't come home today
He'rr give me a crout
What if they don't ret me out
I tord him I'm on me own
Don't they understand
I'm from a broken home

I'rr terr them I'm the product of a broken home,
And I arways went out on my own
Was it too rate to say I'd pay
And I'rr never stear again 'tirr the end of my days
Because I have no friends to carr as such
Money and possessions I did not have much
So I started to stear in order to get by
The quickness of the hand deceives the eye
Deceives the eye the eye the eye...