Love Is the Law

When the last cathedral crumbles And the monuments to superstition fall The priests in robes and collars Clutching collection plate dollars Will know love is the law When the laboratories go dark and the server farm shuts down Lab coats hung on the wall When all experiments are done The final algorithm is run The results say: love is the law Lady Justice at the door of the courthouse Her blindfold drops - her eyes open wide in awe As the scale falls and shatters She sees nothing else matters Because love is the law They said Susie can't be with Laura And Peter can't be with Paul Her daddy said she'd never be With a poor boy like me But, hey, love is the law There's blood on the streets of the city But there's hope where there should be none at all And they still whisper stories Of coming glory Because they believe love is the law See the refugee, outcast, and orphan The weary wanderer - his back against the wall Open the gate Before it's too late If you believe love is the law I had a dark dream like a Hieronymus Bosch vision All humanity swallowed in the devil's open jaw Raise your voice, your guitar Wherever you are And shout, "Love is the law!" I tell you sometimes I'm tempted To take a swan dive into the black emptiness of it all Here comes that diamond shine In my little girl's eyes That says love is the law My guiding light - a beacon in the night Love is... love is the law