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“My name is Jonathan Mellis, I'm solitary confined
In a D.C Jail, where they destroy your mind
They call solitary confinement “the hole”. 
They drop you in and let time erode your soul.

It’s hard to cope with this tunnel of sadness I'm facing
At first, I'm lonely and my mind is racing.
After a while this turns into desperate frustration. 
Where are my champions in this once great nation?

I try to sleep all day, but I can’t turn the page
Then as energy comes back, I feel a surge of rage 
My skin is crawling and the walls close in, there' s no buffer
Because I liked Trump, jailers smile as I suffer 

I am Jacob Chansley, I was the guy in the news
I wore that fur hat with horns, not to mention tattoos. 
I told protestors to leave, when Trump urged us to go home, 
But vengeance wasn't averted when I took that megaphone

We thought the election was tipped by an unseen hand
The one gun fired killed Ashli Babbit, like me a veteran, making a stand
Three hundred days plus in the hole, an undeserved curse 
I’ve long had mental issues, and solitary made them worse.

I'm Jake Lang, I've been thrown in the hole, in this hell
Because I posted a video of myself praying in my cell.
Someone had smuggled me a contraband phone
So I tried to show the outside a faith like a stone

I've been in this jail for four years, seeing sadism shown
Nine hundreds of those days, in the hole, alone
Now they tell me the rest of the sentence will be in isolation
How easy power over prisoners morphs to an evil operation

Our leaders didn't express any sign of distress.
Neither Joe Biden nor Harris gave us redress
What happened to our constitution, does anyone care?
The founders meant justice to be speedy and fair.

George Orwell’s specter walks the jail halls
In the name of “our democracy”, liberty falls.
Friends, family, the press should be able to enter
To visit the detained, advocate for the dissenter
Whatever January 6 was about, this point should ring true:
When we lose basic rights, then you do too.
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