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Supreme Justice
A son is shot and left for dead
A mother and father are seeing red
A daughter is raped and beaten after school
A whole community has lost its cool
With one voice we cry out as a thundering drum
A demand that justice must swiftly come
Eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth
That is what justice was meant to do
One man robs another man’s home
A child is left in a car alone
Throw the book at them we all say
What book would that be by the way?
When a lawyer thrives defending drunk drivers
And the common beliefs is all lawyers are liars
We cry for justice when we are wronged
And we hate when its outcome is prolonged
But we cry for mercy when in the wrong
Our punishment shouldn’t be so long
What is justice, what does it do
Let’s discuss the case of me and you
Justice demanded that we all should die
And though there were so many reasons why
Grace and mercy took the stand
To testify on behave of man
And though the evidence condemned us so
The jailer had to let us go
Not that the debt would do unpaid
But in the judge’s chambers a deal was made
The judgment was death the much is true
But the verdict didn’t fall on me and you
I guess what I’m trying to say
Is that we should view justice a different way
Not as an avenue for revenge, or gain
But a reason to praise our Saviors name
He took my sentence and served my time
His blood for my blood, His life for mine
Now true justice comes only by His hand
And His judgment is the only one that will stand
J. Moore
1/21/2015
A son is shot and left for dead
A mother and father are seeing red
A daughter is raped and beaten after school
A whole community has lost its cool
With one voice we cry out as a thundering drum
A demand that justice must swiftly come
Eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth
That is what justice was meant to do
One man robs another man’s home
A child is left in a car alone
Throw the book at them we all say
What book would that be by the way?
When a lawyer thrives defending drunk drivers
And the common beliefs is all lawyers are liars
We cry for justice when we are wronged
And we hate when its outcome is prolonged
But we cry for mercy when in the wrong
Our punishment shouldn’t be so long
What is justice, what does it do
Let’s discuss the case of me and you
Justice demanded that we all should die
And though there were so many reasons why
Grace and mercy took the stand
To testify on behave of man
And though the evidence condemned us so
The jailer had to let us go
Not that the debt would do unpaid
But in the judge’s chambers a deal was made
The judgment was death the much is true
But the verdict didn’t fall on me and you
I guess what I’m trying to say
Is that we should view justice a different way
Not as an avenue for revenge, or gain
But a reason to praise our Saviors name
He took my sentence and served my time
His blood for my blood, His life for mine
Now true justice comes only by His hand
And His judgment is the only one that will stand
J. Moore
1/21/2015
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Supreme Justice
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