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 version
The song was originally written in English. The English demo was recorded in December 2014 and released April 23, 2015 in a video previewing the Korean production. Below are the lyrics for the original English version.

English lyrics
(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] Till 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 Every time 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?

Reprise 1
Note that on the second to last line, Kakizawa joins the ensemble to sing "Kira koso seigi" ("It is Kira who is justice") in his version, but Urai does not. Instead, Urai is still holding the last note from several lines above (from "I'll show you just what true justice is").