Madness – Deceives The Eye (Guitar)

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

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

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

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"

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

       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?"

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