deceives the eye chords by
Madness
Madness

N/A
Key: B major
Verse 1
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C

G
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Am
Am

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In the earliest days of my
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Em
Em

shoplifting career,
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Dm

Am
Am

Em
Em

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You could safely say I was filled with fear.
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It was nail biting work from the very start,
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C

But several quick successes
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soon gave me heart.
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C

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Am
Am

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Af ter a while I could pick
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or nick or steal,
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Dm

Am
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Em
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Some shirts some trousers
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Em
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and a few LPs.
No- one ever stopped me,
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they didn't seem to care.
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It sometimes seemed to me that
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there was no- one there.
Verse 2
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Am

Then a fine summers day
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D

my mates and me,
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Set off down the westend on
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D

our usual spree.
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Things were as normal for an hour or so,
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Then my nimble hands
were a bit too slow.
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C

G
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Am
Am

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G

Two store detectives made
a fast approach,
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Am

One grabbed my jacket
(you're nicked!)
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Em

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The other grabbed my throat.
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F

So they caught me at last,
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one said with joy:
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"You'll have to do some time,
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my light fingered boy!"
Interlude 1
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Em
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Verse 3
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If only I'd remembered my
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common sense,
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They captured me red-
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handed with evidence.
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If I go to the manager
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and say I'm sorry,
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Maybe he'll forgive me for my
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Dm

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Cm
Cm

youthful folly.
Verse 4
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Cm

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Cm
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But what will me social worker say,
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Cm
Cm

If I don't come home today?
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Cm
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He'll give me a clout!
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Bbm

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Cm

What if they don't let me out?
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Bbm

I told him I'm on me own!
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Cm

Don't they understand?
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I'm from a broken home!
Verse 5
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I'll tell them I'm the pro
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duct of a broken home,
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And I always went out on my own.
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Was it too late to say I'd pay,
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And I'll never steal again
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'till the end of my days?
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Am
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Because I have no friends
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to call as such,
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Money and posessions I
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did not have much,
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So I started to steal in order
to get by.
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The quickness of the hand
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deceives the eye.
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deceives the eye the eye the eye...

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