We Are Detective

Album: Quick Step and Side Kick (1982)
Charted: 7
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  • Somebody''s watching me
    and now i''m nervous and i shouldn''t be
    Somebody''s got their eye on me
    perhaps i should invite him up for tea?
    We saw him smoking by the newspaper stand
    there''s something odd about his gloved left hand
    Saw him again inside the old cafe
    he makes us tense we wish he''d go away

    We are detective
    we are select
    We are detective
    come to collect
    Somebody''s after me
    he left his footprints by the garden tree
    Last night when i got home
    i got the feeling i was not alone!
    Someone is on our tail
    we think they''re opening up our morning mail
    And now each time the telephone rings
    we think of frightening things

    We dress up in disguise
    to get away from all those prying eyes
    Our friends all think we''re mad
    but we know better cos the spy is bad Writer/s: ALANNAH JOY CURRIE, JOSEPH MARTIN LEEWAY, TOM BAILEY
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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