ALL WHITE JURY ( Verses ) the name's cassious frazier sanders got nothing to hide chose to forget long number rips 'cross my chest side to side maybe bunches of sixes If i could hazard a guess got TWELVE WHITE JURORS one hell of a rotten mess picked out of a lineup still fresh in my choir clothes impish shaken lady crying blowing her nose they pressed her a third time "Ma'am we ain't got all day." "All look alike to me." last truth that woman would say ( Chorus ) low middle class you could have named us no ghetto true loving mom and dad if something broke was taught to fix it received more blessings than should have had stare into a blank wall stopped crossing down numbered days ALL WHITE JURY put me here must have hated us some way ( Verses ) was apprehended back in two thousand and one three days after the planes hit with my twin girls under the sun got their bicycle helmets knee pads and those sanders smiles last time they saw me outside thanks to my speedy WHITE TRIAL declared my true innocence plus arm length of alibis nothing to connect my body or soul but a pack of lies every dark skinned witness pulled from any sort of street ALL WHITE JURY checks their watch blinks and turns the other cheek ( Chorus ) Low middle class you could have named us no ghetto true loving mom and dad if something broke was taught to fix it received more blessings than should have had stare into a blank wall stopped crossing down numbered days ALL WHITE JURY put me here must have hated us some way ( Verses ) twins grew up and got married hit law books like religion dangling like from fishing line death row inmates, young sons think sure headed for bonne terre big river and fields of lead be it gas or electric chair sunday innocent now dead over two hundred of us been exonerated blacks make up more than half given up for presumed dead lean back mister do the math same fucking thing week to week brown eyed handsome man's trial comes ALL WHITE JURY goes to sleep ( Chorus ) low middle class you could have named us no ghetto, true loving mom and dad if something broke was taught to fix it received more blessings than should have had stare into a blank wall stopped counting down numbered days ALL WHITE JURY put me here must have hated us some way
