I often wonder why I sit and wait to die
What have I done to justify the sentence they gave?
Too many hours spent in darkness questioning...
"How and why"?
I can't remember many moments in the light
This retribution has defiled me to no end
And execution without merit looms ahead
Tell me why!
I was a boy who had to live his own way
I never fit into the model they had designed
I chose a path less taken...
I stood with others who had often felt the same
We got stares from passersby
Our dark attire seemed to frighten people away
And when three young boys died
They pointed fingers and entangled us in a lie!
...No hope in sight.....
I sit here terrified!
Can't someone try to bring the truth to light?
Won't anybody open up their eyes?
Before the three of us have lost our lives!
Why was everybody so damn afraid?
They blamed the devil for the heinousness of the crime
And to justify their own faith
We were labeled followers of Satan for a time
The three of us were attacked and disgraced
For many hours we were questioned and someone lied
One of us couldn't take it
His simple manner was manipulated in time....
Fear made him lie....
Now I sit here terrified!
Can't someone try to bring the truth to light?
Won't anybody open up their eyes?
Before the three of us have lost our lives!
Now I am terrified!
Can't someone try to bring the truth to light?
Won't anybody open up their eyes?
Before the three of us have lose our lives!
Can't anybody see through their disguise?!
Believe we didn't take their lives!
And now the three of us have lost our lives...
I often wonder why I sit and wait to die
What have I done to justify the sentence they gave?
Too many hours spent in darkness questioning...
"How and why"?
I can't remember many moments in the light
This retribution has defiled me to no end
And execution without merit looms ahead
Tell me why!
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This song is about The West Memphis Three. They were three teenagers who were tried and convicted of the murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993 by a prosecution team that put forth the idea that the only purported motive in the case was that the slayings were part of a Satanic ritual. The only evidence police ran on were the fact that they wore a dark attire.
Amazing Atheist basically covered it. There's a terrific book entitled "Devil's Knot" which is a more in depth look at the entire case. One of my personal favorites!
In a way we can all relate to this song/The west memphis 3, not fitting into "the mold" and being stereotyped because of it
The West Memphis Three have been released! i think alot of this is due to Black Flag/Rollins Band, and Disturbed for writing songs, and bringing this horrible story to light.