Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Deceives The Eye by Madness
Intro:
E B
Verse 1:
E B
In the earliest days of my shop-lifting career
E G#
You could safely say I was filled with fear
A B
It was nail-biting work from the very start
E B
But several quick successes soon gave me heart
Verse 2:
E B
After a while I could pick and nick with ease
E B
Some shirts, some trousers and a few LP's
A B
No one ever stopped me, they didn't seem to care
E B
It sometimes seemed to me, there was no one there
(Link)
C#m F#
Then a fine summers day my mate Ted and me
C#m F#
Set off down the West End on our usual spree
C#m A
Things were as normal for an hour or so
B
Then my nimble hands were a bit too slow
Verse 3:
E B
Two store-detectives made a fast approach
C#m B
One grabbed my jacket, (you're nicked, haha!) the other grabbed my throat
A B
"So we caught you at last", one said with joy
E B
"Been after you some time, my light-fingered boy"
(Link)
E C#m B C#m B A B E B
(Link Vocal)
C#m F#
If only I'd remembered my common sense
C#m F#
They captured me red-handed with evidence
C#m A
If I go to the manager and say I'm sorry
B
Maybe he'll forgive me for my youthful folly
(Link 2)
Em D
"But - but what will the social worker say
Em D
If - if I don't come home today?
Em D
He'll gimme a clout
Em D
What if they don't let me out?
Em D
I - I told 'em I'm on me own
Em D
Don't they understand I'm from a broken home?"
Verse 4:
E B
I'll tell him I'm the product of a broken home
C#m Bm
And I always went out on my own
A B
Was it too late to say I'd pay
E B
And I'll never steal again till the end of my days?
E B
Because I had no friends to call as such
C#m G#m
Money and possessions I did not 'ave much
A B
So I started to steal in order to get by
E B
The quickness of the hand deceives the eye
E B
Deceives the eye, the eye, the eye, the eye, the eye, the eye
