Lyrics

Hoodlums, scoundrels, guttersnipes and crooks Come  hear the truth they never print in books Everyone  loves a robbery, planned or unplanned Larceny and luxury go hand in hand So go steal something bloody great today Write  it in your journal, Jean-Paul Sartre needs a play Steal  a little once, steal a little better every day You'll need at least seventeen identities and names Always  stay vigilant and awake Because you risk arrest if you make one dumb mistake Only when thinking is the single thing without which one would sink Has a person ever really earned the right to think Say  you're going to steal a great big fish today Sit by the river and wait til the anglers look away Why grub for money in a system built for wealth? Grab that money and have it for yourself But don't be a thief unless it gives you a sexual thrill Being a thief's a calling, it's vocational We're in an orgy of haggling and treason in the fog Don't just stand there daydreaming, filthy on the dock See the dunderhead opium-smuggler fall When he fails to shave his beard off in the cheap Belgian hotel Steal a little once, steal a little better every day With seventeen identities and names At every single moment stay vigilant and awake They'll get you if you make one mistake Only when thinking is the single thing without which one would sink Has a person ever really earned the right to think