Death Note Musical English NY Demo: Where is the Justice? w/ lyrics

I do not own Death Note the Musical or anything to do with it.
(There are a couple more verses in this one than in the previously released version of this song)

Singers: Jeremy Jordan & Death Note ensemble
Music: Frank Wildhorn
Lyrics: Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell

[iusethisnameformygoogleacc]

What's funny about all of this is how many people sincerely agree with Light's 'logic' here when it clearly isn't even meant to be good or reasonable - just emotionally compelling, because arbitrary insinuations and appeals to emotion are what Light is throwing against a legal system that is the product of several thousand years of people having ideas like Light's, trying them, and it going extremely badly. And this is literally in the song. Like...I'm not a big fan of the concept of cutting deals to avoid trial, but that's because almost every Legal Aid lawyer is so overworked that forcing their clients to cut deals regardless of their guilt is the only real option available. Not because the concept of plea deals is inherently corrupt, and when it is it's more likely to be a matter of individuals representing the State's side being corrupt to varying degrees. A state that he isn't holding accountable because he cut deals with various governments giving them blanket immunity in exchange for them not trying to find him.

Like...the people talking about 2020 and wondering where the justice is...do you mean the continued murder of black kids by cops? Because a system where we just appoint someone to decide who is innocent and who is guilty without a trial and deliver instant death penalties, without Light's superpower of being smarter than anyone to ever live in our world and being able to perfectly determine who's innocent and who's guilty with no false positives, that would basically just mean tens of thousands of more dead black kids, because the person deciding every case would be Donald fucking Trump or something.

Sure, if you can find a superhuman god emperor who genuinely does know better than all of us, absolutely let him enforce justice like the fucking Night Haunter if you want, but while we're limited to realistic human beings, the whole point of the systems we have is to serve as checks on any individual's power, because everyone thinks they know better and they're all wrong. Only systems which fundamentally leave no one happy can actually do anything to fix the fundamental flaws in how humanity works.

We have a system that is based around the idea of punishing the innocent as infrequently as possible even if this means bad people escape punishment, because it very much is an either-or proposition unless you're a nascent god-king like Light Yagami, and if you *think* you are, that's when you become a problem someone else is going to have to deal with.

[gravypill]

When the writers of the musical understands these characters more than the Netflix adaptation writers. Thank god.

[BHXProduction]

The writers REALLY understood the characters.

[lyd]

the way he says "get away murder" just hits different

[TerribleInThOriginal]

now THIS is how you americanize deathnote. in the manga they don't really mention things like dodging or paying people off once in court, because japan tends to presume guilty until proven innocent, but it is a big thing in the US and makes the argument a lot more heartfelt and honestly makes light sound a lot more like a 'good guy' initially when he explains his black and white viewpoint and deciding he'll make the world fit his views instead of him changing to the world, because his idea for the world is better

[ToniLettuce]

He was such a decent guy with decent reasoning but no one vibe-checked him and he lost control of his power 😔

[angstyteen]

we’re really all switching to Light’s side in 2020

[LyricNear]

Everyone revisiting this in 2020 we're really wondering where the justice is

[rosecocca]

"Let the rich and famous get away with murder"....Misa?

[brookepatten]

This song did not age....at all. Why is this still absolutely as relevant as ever?

[ladylightning]

"Let the rich and famous get away with murder"
Yes, Light, it sure would be awful if someone abused their power to get away with murder.

[rebeccax]

My brain goes from “Where is the justice when the guilty all go free” to “You’ll be obsessed with all my forest expertise” smh

[entirelybonkers]

Alas, we have not found that Justice yet.

[smerzeer]

me: what light did was morally wrong

Also me: BUT THE CORPORATIONS MAKE THR REGULATIONS AND HOLD NO ONE ACCOUNTABLE WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG

[asagothe_fander]

The people who wrote this musical predicted the future

[shadowcat]

I have to admit it. hes right. a lot of guilty people end up going free.often from "Good behavior" the victims are left with fear. trust me, i know.

[Geek]

I guess if you think philosophically you can say that Light became what he hated most a corrupt man who ignores the law and then ultimately pays the price with his life

[pipersteele]

what is up with Jeremy Jordan always playing characters who just want a little justice

[cup_of_yellow]

"let the rich and famous, get away with murder" that foreshadowing tho

[kateoneill]

I really like the Deathnote Musical because I think it does a really good job of balancing the fact that Light does have goals and morals with his fall to a God complex