DESCRIPTION:
Title song from the new EP from 45 Adapters. Out soon on vinyl courtesy of Longshot Music and Contra Records. Available digitally right now (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/they-call-it-justice-single/id1175824740). Kalief Browder RIP

Whatever happened to Habeas Corpus?
Whatever happened to your date in court?
You’ll never get to see a jury
They’ve changed a natural right into a last resort

The Fifth Amendment let’s you keep silent
The SIxth Amendment guarantees a trial
We’re not free, we’ve got no rights
We pleaded them away and we’re living in denial.

They call it justice
They call it taking a plea
They call it justice
It seems like extortion to me
It seems like we’re not really free

It’s not about protecting the guilty
It’s not about having a bleeding heart
Absolute power for prosecutors
Gives them the power to rip families apart

The innocent faced with years in prison
Have no chance to let a jury decide
Take a plea or risk your life
There’s a gun against their heads and their hands are tied

More than two million are locked in prison
Who never had a chance to stand and face their peers
Remember the name of Kalief Browder
Locked away in Rikers for over three years

Three years waiting to prove his innocence
It’s a shame that we should never permit
They offered pleas, to set him free
He wouldn’t confess to a crime he didn’t commit

They call it taking a please
but it seems like extortion to me