burlgar

The Damned

b-side of Smash It Up 7 (Chiswick/Big Beat Records 1979)

(Vanian/Scabies/Sensible/Ward)

Here we go now!

I m a villan I m a rogue

I ll nick your wallet or garden gnome

I m a burglar I m a cad

An open window I m in your home

I ll have your tools or kiddies toys

And I m not safe - a joy of joys

I ll be the gasman or a toad

I ll have your telly or garden hose

While I m scoping in the dark

I ll strap your dog so he won t bark

I won t disturb your only dreams

But if you wake up there s no screams

I ll nick anything removable

From the QE2 to the toilet paper in the houses of parliment

I ll even have the milk off your doorstep

Or the skin off a baby seals back

cause I m a real villan (played backwards)

I ll steal the paper or the milk

Or warn your neighbours or the bill

I m a stealer I m a crook

Read about me in Mich s book

Burglary is a life for me

Burglary is a life for me

People say that crime don t pay

I drink champagne every day

And the good lord said thou shall not steal

There is only one path and that is the straight and narrow

It s a bit too bleeding straight and a bit too narrow for my liking

Ok gov It s a fair cop

Throw on the bracelets

Chink chink oh god I m nicked

I sentence you to six months...