Juvenile Hall from Survivor by Matthew Rahman

Gather up the jury
From the recess in their head
You drag them out
Inconvenienced from their shift

Gather them in flocks
To cross-examine bobbleheads
Inbred kids
White on their nose and on their lips

Coming down for a second, from your privilege
Judging them
Don't call it a 'second chance'
Just call it what it is

You always pointed out what i did to you
What did you do to me?
Don't scold me harder
When I'm barely functioning

And so the apple bends the tree
To break upon the bough
And the system, flawed by design
Won't break our fall

Gather up the guards in concrete jungles
Pound them in
Like a villain from the books they've never read

Gather them in cages
Let them incubate in there
Is the crime worse than
The way they fight crime around here?

You always pointed out what i did to you
What did you do to me?
Don't scold me harder
When i'm only functioning

And so the apple bends the tree
To break upon the bough
And the system, flawed by design
Won't break our fall

Gather them in cages
Let them incubate in there
Is the crime worse than the crimefighter around here?

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