Lawyers In Love

Album

Lawyers In Love

Label

Asylum Records

Genre

Rock

Composer(s)

Jackson Browne

Entered Chart

Jul 9, 1983

Peak Date

Sep 10, 1983

Released

August 2, 1983

Recorded

1983 Studio A warehouse, Downtown Los Angeles

Catalog #

Asylum 69826

B-Side

N/A

Often mistaken for social satire (on '80s materialism), this was actually about nuclear détente and the way world leaders play games with the lives of innocent citizens. Lawyers In Love was Browne's most political album. >> Browne called this song "a political satire based on the delusion in the United States that there would be nothing in the world if there were no Russians." It didn't go as planned. "The vast majority of my audience could not get the height of that song," he explained. "They did not understand it, probably as a result of the misconception that I could not be satirical. In addition, political affairs are also much less clear to the younger generations than I thought." Browne got the title from his brother-in-law, how told him that Los Angeles looked like it "had been designed by lawyers in love." Rick Vito contributed some guitar work on this track. He spent three years with Fleetwood Mac in the late 1980s early '90s after Lindsey Buckingham left the band.

I can't keep up with what's been going on
I think my heart must just be slowing down
Among the human beings in their designer jeans
Am I the only one who hears the screams
And the strangled cries of lawyers in love

God sends his spaceships to America, the beautiful
They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful
Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days
Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves
To the mating calls of lawyers in love

Last night I watched the news from Washington, the capitol
The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them, like Russians will
Now we've got all this room, we've even got the moon
And I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon
As vacation land for lawyers in love