Lyrics to
Law Man

This version of Law Man was released by Jefferson Airplane in 1971.

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Law man–I’m afraid you just walked in here at the wrong time
my old man’s gun has never been fired
but there’s a first time & this could be
this could be the first time

Law man
you know you look to be a lot younger than me and
I’d hate to shoot a baby
you’ve got a long way to go before you’re old & slow
and it could be
it could be a good time if you change your mind
well I’m tired and sweet from making love
and it’s just too late
you’ll have to wait
bring your business around here in the morning

well I’ve heard your line
& you’ve heard mine
& I’m just too tired to take a side
bring your business around here in the morning
Don’t you want to be easy look there
let some of the things you see go on by or
you can burn them into your brain go on home
Don’t you see the children, they’re just like you
they want everything to be fine but they let it slide
and the laughing lets you know that smiling breaks the rules

Law breaker you know it could be me
& if you had your way we’d all be down
under the face of a clock that’s just too old to be wound
& you can see now the old hands won’t move around
one way or the other,
fool card brother this could be,
this could be, the first time.

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About Lyrics and Law Man by Jefferson Airplane

The lyrics for Law Man are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Jefferson Airplane. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Law Man have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Law Man - Jefferson Airplane and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Law Man by Jefferson Airplane in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Law Man" means the words set to the music of Law Man, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jefferson Airplane. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Law Man and the lyrics to Law Man are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jefferson Airplane who came here looking just for the lyrics to Law Man, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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