Scales and Blindfolds

(Lyrics)

Inspired by:
The book The Innocent Man by John Grisham and the documentary series of the same name

Brutal murder
Abduction
Terror in small-town America

Dead-end investigations
Interrogations and confessions
True or not
Implications hang

As you stand before the court
Someone’s justice is being served
So what if it is not yours?

Truth, half-truths
And anything except the truth
A string of false testimony
Accounts of dreams make the story

Little connection
Little relevance
Even less evidence

Stunned by disbelief and despair
You hear the guilty verdict

Scales and blindfolds
The justice they’ll withhold
Sentenced to die
Hell to behold

A guise of scales and blindfolds
Scales and blindfolds

Bound for McAlester
Death row damnation
Inflicting mental scars

But no innocent man
Would have been dragged this far?

Waiting till the final day
Your life is that lonely cell
Mental degeneration
Cruel dreams and their spell

Scales and blindfolds
The justice they’ll withhold
Sentenced to die
Hell to behold

A guise of scales and blindfolds
Scales and blindfolds

What happened here?
Could it not be clear
That you were guilty of no murder?

But who’ll take your case?
Or who’ll hear your plea?
Perhaps to the world
It does not matter

Victims needing justice
Denied in the process

Some waste away
Some are free again
Some may find redemption

Scales and blindfolds
The justice they’ll withhold
Sentenced to die
Hell to behold

A guise of scales and blindfolds
Scales and blindfolds