When they said “god is dead” it didn't really matter No one really listened and the law didn’t really develop Anything in the way of new ethical standards. (Yeah.) The punks sang along “all cops are bastards, no gods, no masters” So who's gonna lead these sheep to pasture? World speeds up, sheep go faster And normative theory of course most normally prompts laughter Arguments are lost often on a word's rhetorical baggage And the law is written to be read backwards Take a picture of the before and after Doesn’t really matter how I rap now It's time for law for this former rapper Straight A student with a B+ average mitigating disaster Get a J.D. to Raise High the Roofbeam and see Seymour hang from the rafters And it really shouldn't matter Where your house falls on the city parcel mapper This is American society Tell me how high can I climb that ladder? And the law is a strait jacket. Escape may take practice Most folks never figure out a way from the prison cell that they're trapped in But money might make things happen So El Chapo is under the cactus While others pay to have attorneys come tunnel their way out of tax brackets It's time for law for all capitalists Never mind the people with the matchsticks They're just the madmen on the grass holding TNT and explosive packages Bet ya can't move past it To make a better world, try to first imagine it But a little panic among the masses, suddenly another bad law has been enacted And the law is about who has access Some laws meant to be redacted When I say it's time for law, I mean it’s time I diversify my tactics Work alongside activists, then represent em when they punch fascists I listen to them as they go on for hours, they talk about bad praxis I’m here in the center of the Empire I'm running on low bandwidth I navigate a David Bowie-type Labyrinth with only the aid of public transit And I’ll rub shoulders with anyone Even if it seems antithetical Cos I pay attention to the color of the collar on the shirt of the criminal Their cellphones roaming, their vacations in Italy They may sit seaside but still have hallucinations of their enemies And eventually commit suicide on their multi-million-dollar properties I'm in the heart of the city, I listen to its tiny little symphony See, the law is a mechanism of death A guillotine hovering over your free speech faculties Controlling your language, wooden planks pressed into the neck A Tiananmen square pedestrian, a Dalai Lama born into bondage I take the Hobbesian view often, but even then I still lean a little bit communist And the law stretches. the law bends The law's full of publicly available e-mails and text messages from old friends A treacherous angel rendering litigation outcomes implausible Sometimes justice is not honorable Other times, justice is just not possible
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