Flawed Methods of Persecution & Punishment Lyrics
I cannot get my stomach to understand we can't bring these taken lies back.
My sadness evolves into hate. I want to know why no one told me.
Tell me what i can do to stop this.
Injections of miscarried justice.
The problem is it's one thing to control, another thing to expel.
We falsely convict by misleading the witness, even proven deaths of many innocent .
In the name of what god should we ever be allowed?
Answers are getting buried as powers keep abusing.
Injections of miscarried justice.
(Resolution seems so possible.
Integrate a compassion into control.)
Hurting to riase my state of of conscience.
Concealed from foresights and knowledge bases of our communities.
So what are we gonna do now to change this?
I'm singing to raise higher awareness.
Injections of miscarried justice.
The methods flawed and I feel hopeless.
Hurting to riase my state of of conscience.
This song is amazing. 8)
this is what Jordan Brown said: It's about a documentary I watched called At The Death House Door, put out last year by IFC. It's about the priest who looked over all the death-row inmates and executions in Texas, from 80's throughthe late 90's, I believe. The film affected me so much, because it was him telling these stories and sharing these journals he had, and seeing the lives of the families who were affected by this, coming to find out there's evidence of proof that their brother or son was actually [wrongfully] taken. -AP (magazine)
Jordan: "I wanted to write a song for the record based on a documentary I watched called "At the death house door." The film deals with several accounts of severe mistreatment against prisoners on the texas death row, some of whom were later proven innocent after execution. It's a terribly flawed system, torturous and inhumane (most of the executions in the US each year are botched and prisoners will suffer great physical pain while waiting to die by lethal injection), and the officials who are running it are unwilling to admit they have done anything wrong. The thing that struck me most while watching this documentary was the great sense of hopelessness sitting deep in my stomach, feelings that there were no actions I could do to change these crimes and that the cowards committing these acts were completely above me and out of my control. It was as if I'd just have to deal with this sharp sadness coming over me, but I was able to find resolution in writing about my thought in response to these injustices. The hope is that this message will reach new ears. Spreading awareness of what is happening. It would be through this awareness that we can one day make a much needed change in the world. I encourage everyone to go out and watch this film and learn more."
I'm not usually right when it comes to songs, but I just read the above comments and I am right. Go me.
When I first heard this song (with my interpretation of the lyrics, which were pretty close once I checked), I thought it was just one big long rant about how they were against the death penalty. I say that impartially, that was just my impression. I have always thought it was and still think it is a good song musically. But after having read the other comments (and deeper into the lyrics), I'm starting to wonder if they're less against the death penalty itself and more against the "flawed method" by how we implement it. Would they still be against the death penalty (they may actually very well be for it; once again, I don't know) if the method were flawless? Are the shortcomings all they are complaining about? Of all the songs they've written, I'd love to sit down and talk with them about this one the most.