Lyrics:It Never Fails

We're cops, we're not psychiatrists.
We ain't no Sigmund Freud.
But inside of every criminal
Is an aching empty void

You take your cosmetic surgeon, 
with his fancy carving knife.
We get word that he's been plotting a malfeasance on his wife.
When the gruesome deed is done,
he freaks out and calls his mom.
Cause the saintly woman knows just what to say to keep him calm

The confession is recorded on this handy tap device.
Now our guy is in the clink, serving 25 to life.

It never fails. (It never fails.)
It never fails. (It never fails.)
Be them killers, cons, or felons, guys in marketing or sales.
There's a broken kid inside, a wounded child that he can't hide.
And we're fillin' up the jails, cause it never, ever fails.

You catch your counterfeit duchess with your taste for haute couture
Dresses her self-loathing in Armani and Dior
We stick a camera in her sweatshop where she pays her workers dirt
Makes a twenty dollar knockoff from a thousand dollar shirt
She realize she's busted, burns the factory to the floor
Now she's wearing prison orange and her bathroom has no door

It never fails. (It never fails.)
It never fails. (It never fails.)
You're an up and coming slumlord or the friggin' Prince of Wales.
There's a weak and fragile soul with a lack of self-control.
And we're fillin' up the jails, cause it never ever fails.
Yes, we're fillin' up the jails, cause it never ever fails.

Now any good detective treats his suspect with respect.
Nobody's a criminal by choice.
You can bet that every felon is a victim of neglect
Alone and out of touch with his authentic inner voice, authentic inner voice, authentic inner voice.

You take a police detective with a wife he never sees
He leaves her all alone while hunting public enemies
Then Friday he comes home to take his gal out for some fun
And he finds her in flagrante with enemy number one
Without embraces from her husband, she embraced a life of crime
Now I'm stuck here on a stakeout while my wife is doing time

It never fails. (It never fails.)
It never fails. (It never fails.)
The devil's in the goddamn psychological details.
It's the pain that you can't see, that's the liability.
And we're fillin' up the jails, cause it never ever fails.
Yes, we're fillin' up the jails, cause it never ever fails.