Where is the Justice

Where is the Justice? is a song in Death Note: The Musical. The song is reprised three times, making it the most prominent song in the production.

Overview
The musical opens to a dark stage and the Overture, but "Where is the Justice?" is the first main song of the musical. Light Yagami is in a high school classroom where his teacher is discussing the nature of justice. Light stands up with objections to his teacher's views, and he begins this song when the teacher asks him what he has to say on the matter. His classmates get involved in the song/discussion, bringing in different viewpoints about the problems with the justice system.

The song is reprised three times. In addition to beginning Act 1, it also ends Act 1 and begins Act 2. It reprises again after the second Kira appears. The reprises address the question "Where is the Justice?" with the first reprise answering that Light (Kira) and L are justice, according to each one's point of view. In the final reprise, civilians proclaim that Kira and the second Kira are justice.

English lyrics
The song was originally written in English. An English demo of the song was released by HoriPro in 2015 to lead up to the opening of the Tokyo production. Below are the lyrics for the original English version.

(ENSEMBLE backup lyrics are in parenthesis.)

[LIGHT]

Where is the justice

When the guilty all go free?

Why don't we lock them up

And throw away the key?

[TEACHER]

I see a young man's anger

Burning in your eyes

[LIGHT]

What you see is my impatience

With your noble compromise

Show me what’s right about the wrongs that we allow

Real people need to feel protected here and now

This whole damn system’s broken way beyond repair

It's just law

Not law and order

Not much good and seldom fair

[STUDENT #1]

Laws are made for everyone

We're treated all the same

[LIGHT]

'Til a lawyer's tricks can fix the blame

Let the corporations make the regulations

And hold no one uncountable when everything goes wrong

Let the rich and famous get away with murder

Everytime a high-priced mouth piece starts to talk

His client gets a walk

Tell me, where is the justice?

If there’s any justice

(Where's the justice? Tell me where!)

[LIGHT]

Where is the justice

For all the victims? (Tell me where!)

Where is the justice? (Tell me where!)

What good is law that can’t punish those who break it?

[STUDENT #2]

Politicians make their speeches all day long

While judges pushing pencils mostly get it wrong (Mostly get it wrong!)

[STUDENT #3]

Instead of loopholes for the laws to fall between

Let some good old fashioned payback

grease the wheels of a machine (Grease the wheels of the machine!)

[LIGHT]

Isn't everybody sick to death of all this stuff?

Can't we all stand up and say enough? (We've had enough!)

(Justice, justice, justice, now's the time for)

[LIGHT]

Listen to the families hiding in their houses (justice, justice)

All of them afraid to walk the streets at night

With all the doors locked tight

We must give them their justice! (Where is the justice?)

We owe them some justice! (Where is the justice?)

[ALL]

Where is the justice?

Where is the Justice?
(lyrics to be added)

Reprise 1
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Reprise 2
(lyrics to be added)

Pedestrian Scramble (reprise 3)
(lyrics to be added)