HEARD ME RIGHT

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Verse 1

Coffee ring, blue pen, six charts waiting under glass You read each date aloud, then named the source and past Marked where the totals met, where each small sign kept leaning Then pushed the papers back: "I know your case; but will my answers have meaning." The room called it confusion; your notes stayed sharp and even You could teach their case, then calmly leave your numbered seat, pleading A map can show the road, the mile, the turn, and the ending The page passed your test; it could not price the home you needed

Chorus

Heard me right, then chose your side Map on the table, family in your eyes You knew my reason, I knew your reply Facts in your hand, but your future took a bite Heard me right, no message got lost We read the paper, not what it would cost

Verse 2

One view keeps your chair warm at the Sunday family dinner One keeps an office badge clipped where the camera sees it center One keeps the group chat friendly when your name becomes the target One keeps the old handshake, health plan, and the apartment He traced the globe's shadow, got the angle and the number Then faced a phone camera and drew it flat for the followers The video paid his rent; each laugh made doubt a little louder The claim held center stage; the evidence waited by the elevator

Chorus

Heard me right, then chose your side Map on the table, family in your eyes You knew my reason, I knew your reply Facts in your hand, and your paycheck took a bite Heard me right, no message got lost We read the paper, not what it would cost

Verse 3

A full room stamped one bridge safe after weeks of careful measure Ten pens went dry while one quiet hand kept checking pressure The vote looked clean; a hidden seam gave back a different numbered answer At dawn, red warning chalk kept the work crew from the roadway and deaths pleasure That lone no earned no halo, only time for one more hammer The steel moved first; eleven people changed the paper later A crowd can map more ground, while one pair of boots may feel the fracture The final count showed where they stood, not what the metal splattered

Verse 4

A no may hide a paycheck folded deep inside a winter coat Or rise from a family scar no clean chart could ever measure One person guards the factory; another guards the river Both see the trade, but each one fears a different kind of disaster One starts with dinner; one starts with water for the children Put those first, and honest numbers reach a split decision Half of the record can make careful minds choose the wrong answer A later test can move belief and show missing pieces mattered

Bridge

Then the pen turned back: it priced your chair, but left my name outside the ledger I could quote your case and reject it on cue; we read one paper and paid the price of two

Chorus

Heard me right, we chose our sides Map on the table, history in our eyes You knew my reason, I knew your reply Facts in your hand, and your paycheck took a bite Heard me right, no message got lost We read the paper, not what it would cost

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