Where is the place for an upbeat song today?
Since it all turned into one great tragic play.
How am I supposed to be happy in a world full of denial
since we all happen to know the real failures of a jury trial.
How are we to know justice when it's never here?
How are we to know about God when it's never clear?
How are we all to live in this gracefully disguised hell
since they all want to confine you to a 9 by 5 cell,
be it an old folks home, a jailhouse or a dank cubicle
and go out on Sunday and rehearse the holy pentacle.
So how is this really a happy, go lucky kind of life
since for your kids, they'll always favor your wife
even if she goes out, parties all night and sleeps around.
Your case for custody won't stand on solid ground.
She could be a coke head, always smoking weed
drinking and driving all the time, Yes, Indeed.
Where she could beat your kid
and sit around and take some acid.
Where she could lock him out
just to keep her social clout.
Doing coke deals in the den
with your friends out of the pen.
So how is this world really fair?
Since the justice system didn't care.
I should know.. I was there,
like the beast in the lair.

10/14/2003

Author's Note: I wrote this about my childhood..

Posted on 10/14/2003
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