Go To Jail (card) Lyrics

Another classic tale from a story known too well

Young man pleads to the sheet, locked up in a cell

We fail to see the real consequence

Stigmatized lives swept into the system

Honor MLK, pretend all is okay

400 Years of servitude, somehow just washed away

We avert our minds from inescapable truth

Wave our freedom; red, white and blue

Mass incarceration, underclass, undercaste, permanent exile

POOR IN PRISON

Selffulfilling prophecy; marginalized

POOR IN PRISON

Promise and peril, unshakeable parallels

NEW JIM CROW ERA

BADGE, of inferiority; Felony record

Gives the poor, MORE PRISON

Perpetuating myth, it's a reinforcing lie

It's the hollowest of hopes, laid by cruel and heavy hands

This flawed notion, in the U.S. of A.

Color-blind justice and equality

You tell them; just open the doors, but, there's no fucking doors

Just a goddamn cell, and a forgotten name

With a felony record, you've got to check the box

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Mass incarceration, underclass, undercaste, permanent exile

POOR IN PRISON

Self-fulfilling prophecy; marginalized

POOR IN PRISON

Promise and peril, unshakeable parallels

NEW JIM CROW ERA

BADGE, of inferiority; Felony record

Gives the poor, MORE PRISON