Deceives The Eye chords by Madness

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Deceives The Eye by Madness

Intro:
E MajorE BB


Verse 1:
E MajorE              BB
In the earliest days of my shop-lifting career
E MajorE              G#G#
You could safely say I was filled with fear
    A augmentedA             BB
It was nail-biting work from the very start
   E MajorE              BB
But several quick successes soon gave me heart

Verse 2:
E MajorE           BB
After a while I could pick and nick with ease
E MajorE                  BB
Some shirts, some trousers and a few LP's
A augmentedA                  BB
No one ever stopped me, they didn't seem to care
  E MajorE                 BB
It sometimes seemed to me, there was no one there


(Link)
C# minorC#m             F#F#
Then a fine summers day my mate Ted and me
C# minorC#m               F#F#
Set off down the West End on our usual spree
C# minorC#m             A augmentedA
Things were as normal for an hour or so
BB
Then my nimble hands were a bit too slow


Verse 3:
E MajorE              BB
Two store-detectives made a fast approach
C# minorC#m                      BB
One grabbed my jacket, (you're nicked, haha!) the other grabbed my throat
A augmentedA                BB
"So we caught you at last", one said with joy
E MajorE               BB
"Been after you some time, my light-fingered boy"

(Link)
E MajorE  C# minorC#m  BB C# minorC#m BB A augmentedA BB E MajorE BB


(Link Vocal)
C# minorC#m            F#F#
If only I'd remembered my common sense
C# minorC#m                F#F#
They captured me red-handed with evidence
C# minorC#m            A augmentedA
If I go to the manager and say I'm sorry
BB
Maybe he'll forgive me for my youthful folly


(Link 2)
    E minorEm        D MajorD
"But - but what will the social worker say
E minorEm   D MajorD
If - if I don't come home today?
E minorEm       D MajorD
He'll gimme a clout
E minorEm            D MajorD
What if they don't let me out?
E minorEm            D MajorD
I - I told 'em I'm on me own
E minorEm          D MajorD
Don't they understand I'm from a broken home?"

Verse 4:

E MajorE                  BB
I'll tell him I'm the product of a broken home
C# minorC#m             B minorBm
And I always went out on my own
A augmentedA         BB
Was it too late to say I'd pay
E MajorE                  BB
And I'll never steal again till the end of my days?

E MajorE              BB
Because I had no friends to call as such
C# minorC#m           G# minorG#m
Money and possessions I did not 'ave much
A augmentedA            BB
So I started to steal in order to get by
E MajorE             BB
The quickness of the hand deceives the eye
E MajorE      BB
Deceives the eye, the eye, the eye, the eye, the eye, the eye