Nobody Wants to go to Court
We have made this world a strange place We treat justice like an idol What we should be in relationship with we worship There is only one way we know how to do that We make it expensive and exclusive Losing in some can cost you more years than you have to live The place where facts matter Most people born will never see snow or justice Nobody Wants to go to Court The shining city upon a hill has a shiniest bit Justice calls the dawn's light to the long night Ringing out hammer on wood The finality we don't want to hear Some judgements break the sound barrier Most of the testimony whispered in back rooms We make a show of justice and clamor for truth When we weave wisdom's song Play your part and the world is better Ring through the valley Nobody Wants to go to Court The prison industrial valley of darkness Too clean is the smell In the shadows so dirty Being innocent is rarely what people prove Your supposed to make a deal Ninety seven percent of the time they don't hav...