The Ballad of Stephen Reid

On a Thursday morning

We made our guilty plan

Everyone, a mask and gun

Someone to steal the van

There's a bank on Grandville

Where the payroll gets paid

The getaway would be a breeze

And that was where mistakes were made

I am a guilty man

And the jury did agree

And I have no argument

With the sentence passed on me

Maybe you've got a clever wife

Maybe you've got a handsome kid

But don't be fooled and think that they are payment

For something good you did

It will feel more like they're stolen

From some place they have downtown

Where the citizens and straights

Keep the good life locked down

I am a guilty man

And the jury did agree

And I have no argument

With the sentence passed on me

There must be something in me

That wants the truth out in the light

'Cause I am a guilty man

Who only wants to sleep at night

Once upon a time

I wrote the story of my life

One that praised a famous man

And won myself a wife

But everything is timing

That's the God of my belief

Up there in that vaulted blue

Everyone of us a thief

I am a guilty man

And the jury did agree

And I have no argument

With the sentence passed on me

And I have no argument

With the sentence passed on me