You’re saying I’m a thief; you’re saying that I steal.
You have no proof, and I’ve denied it.
How am I supposed to feel?
With powers of omniscience, your impressions never fail.
Got to keep your numbers up, so what if I go to jail?
Reflecting your own dishonesty? The rationale’s the same.
Supposing everybody steals and everyone’s to blame.
You needn’t be specific about what you think I took.
I’m guilty and you know it; it’s just the way I “look.”
If not today, then yesterday, here or another place.
I’m guilty and you know it; you “see” it in my face.
That’s impressive logic, so a moment to review:
If “everybody shoplifts,” that would mean … you, too!
Your ego’s more important than anything I claim.
Even if I’m innocent, it’s how you play the game.
The only thing you can’t explain, the only thing that’s real,
If you were accused but innocent,
How would it make YOU feel?
YOUR wife, YOUR children, YOUR parents. Would it really be the same?
Still stickin’ to your story that EVERYONE’S to blame?
Because of your position, of course, you’re never wrong.
May someone close – or you yourself –
Fall prey to the same FALSE song.
Why proclaim their innocence, even if it’s true?
Nothing trumps a “guilty” charge by someone as infallible as you.
You’re saying I’m a thief. You’re saying that I steal.
You won’t recant or reconsider.
How am I supposed to feel? – Ray Michael Parker
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