BALANCED JUDGMENT

[Chorus]
More law you say?
We need more law?
More law you say?
We need more law?
More law you say?
We need more law?
More law you say?
We need more law?

So you make new instruments
Of non-compassion
And incidentally, new niches
Of employment for those who feed
On the system
Laws are dangerous to everyone
The innocent and guilty alike
No matter whether you believe
Yourself powerful or helpless
They have no human understanding
In and of themselves
Laws to suppress
Tend to strengthen
What they would prohibit
This is the fine point on which
All the legal professions of history
Have based their job security

[Pre-Chorus]
Give me the judgment
Of balanced minds
In preference to laws every time
Give me the judgment
Of balanced minds
In preference to laws every time

[Chorus]
More law you say?
We need more law?
More law you say?
We need more law?
More law you say?
We need more law?
More law you say?
We need more law?

We don't need no more
No more
War

Codes and manuals
Create patterned behavior
All patterned behavior
Tends to go unquestioned
Gathering destructive momentum
Law always chooses sides
On the basis of enforcement power
Morality and legal niceties
Have little to do with it
When the real question is
Who has the clout?
Who has the clout?
Who has the clout?

[Pre-Chorus]
Give me the judgment
Of balanced minds
In preference to laws
Every time
Give me the judgment
Of balanced minds
In preference to laws
Every time

[Chorus]
More law you say?
We need more law?
More law you say?
We need more law?
More law you say?
We need more law?
More law you say?
We need more law?

We don’t need no more
No more
War
We don't need no more
No more
War
We don't need no more
No more
War
We don’t need no more
No more
War

Do not give someone a stick to beat you with