Plato's Tripartite

[Verse 1]

I forgot to thank you for the blood you shed

And your obligatory contribution to the community

Are you just dense or so fucking inbred

You think that all is forgiven and all is forgotten?

But forgive them of nothing, despite their impunity

[Pre-Chorus 1]

Oh how the system fails you completely

When monstrous children get treated so sweetly

The violence is praised, the decision cemented

(they seem like nice kids)

Crimes go committed, but never lamented

(that doesn’t change what they did)

[Chorus 1]

That’s when they lock up an innocent victim

The only thing that’s more broken than her spirit is the system

They lock up femininity, infected with the illusion that choice is free

[Verse 2]

You made your bed when you were born in your bones

So lay back, sweetheart, in a body you only sometimes own

Lay back upon cold concrete floors and rest your drunken soul

What more could a lady ask for than to be treated like a hole?

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Oh how the system fails you completely

When monstrous children get treated so sweetly

Standing before you in suit and tie

Don’t they just look so nice? (so nice)

Well-practiced tears come to their eyes

“I guess their remorse will suffice.” (will suffice)

[Chorus 2]

That’s when they lock up

That’s when they lock up your bones

That’s when they lock up

Femininity infected with the illusion that choice, choice is...

[Refrain]

Freedom is delicate, cracking under abject catastrophe

Stronger than his prison bars are the bars around her memory

Freedom is delicate, cracking under abject catastrophe

Stronger than his prison bars are the bars around her memory

[Instrumental]

[Bridge]

It’s irrelevant, her relation to me

No one is innocent if they go free

No one is innocent if they go free

When we hand raise the beast, and the beast runs wild

We must speak of our own involvement in the rape of a child

It’s irrelevant, her relation to me

No one is innocent if they go free

No one is innocent if they go free

[Chorus 2]

That’s when they lock up

That’s when they lock up your bones

That’s when they lock up

Femininity infected with the illusion that choice, choice is...

[Acoustic; cannon between Jadea Kelly and Rody Walker]

[Outro]

[J.K.] That’s when they lock up...

[R.W] (It’s irrelevant,)

(When we hand raise the beast,)

[J.K.] That's when they lock up your bones

[R.W] (Her relation to me)

(And the beast runs wild,)

[J.K.] That's when they lock up...

[R.W] (No one is innocent...)

(We must speak of our own involvement)

(No one is innocent if they go free)

[J.K.] That’s when they lock up...

[R.W] (It’s irrelevant,)

(When we hand raise the beast,)

[J.K.] That's when they lock up your bones

[R.W] (Her relation to me)

(And the beast runs wild,)

[J.K.] That's when they lock up...

[R.W] (No one is innocent...)

(We must speak of our own involvement)

(No one is innocent if they go free)

[J.K.]

That’s when they lock up...

That's when they lock up your bones...