Law & Order Songtext
von Love Committee

Gotta have law and order in this land
If we′re ever gonna see the promised land
Gotta have law and order in this land
We may never get to come this way again

Ever since the day the world first began
People been dyin' from the hands of the sinner man (help!)
We′re not living by the laws of the Constitution
Somebody's got to come up with a better solution

It's your duty (your duty) to report a crime
As so soon could be your life or it could be mine

Gotta have law and order in this land
If we′re ever gonna see the promised land
Hey, we gotta have law and order in this land
We may never get to come this way again

Oh, I don′t like the way they're robbin′ and they're killin′
Young folks dying from the drugs they've been given (help!)
Why can′t we live next door to one another?
Do our children have to know the meaning of trouble


Only way we're gonna ever live in peace
Is lock up the criminals, and throw away the key (oh, oh, oh)

Gotta have law and order in this land (law and order, yeah, yeah)
If we're ever gonna see the promised land
Hey, we gotta have law and order in this land
We may never get to come this way again

Oh yeah
Hmm, crime don′t pay
Rape, robbin′ and stealin'
That ain′t nothin but dirty, dirty dealin'
Hmm, mm, yeah

Gotta have law and order in this land (good thing that we gotta have)
If we′re ever gonna see the promised land (yeah, yeah)
Gotta have law and order in this land
We may never get to come this way again
Gotta have law and order in this land (law)
If we're ever gonna see the promised land (yeah-yeah)
Gotta have law and order in this land (if we′re gonna live in peace we gotta have)
We may never get to come this way again, hey (oh)


Will we ever learn to live in peace?
While I been tryin' to help you and me
(Mmh) law and order
(Mmh) gotta have law and order
(Mmh) law and order
(Mmh) gotta have law and order
(Mmh) law and order
(Mmh) gotta have law and order
(Mmh) law and order
(Mmh) gotta have law and order

Somebody stop that boy from taking their faith as placable
Somebody call the law, I gotta take a look

Law and order
Gotta have law and order
Law and order
Gotta have law and order (help!)
If you can commit a crime (law and order)
Brother, you can do some time (gotta have law and order)
Law and order
Gotta have law and order (help!)

Yeah (law and order)
Yeah-yeah (gotta have law and order)
(Law and order)
(Gotta have law and order, help!)
Will it ever learn? (law and order)
(Gotta have law and order) no, no
Will it ever learn? (law and order)
(Gotta have law and order, help!)

Law and order
Gotta have law and order
Law and order
Gotta have law and order (help!)
Law and order
Gotta have law and order

Yeah (law and order)
(Gotta have law and order, help!)
You know, don't you know? (law and order)
(Gotta have law and order)

Teach the kids while they′re in school
C′mon and teach them all the golden rules, ooh
Teach them love and harmony
Connecting the world, we're all in need
Yeah

We live in peace in the ghetto
In peace in the city
So much cryin′ in the streets
The dark of quitting

All my friends that I know
Are locked up in the plane, yeah (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh)

Don't think you could get away
If you rob a bank today
Can I get called by the FBI?
I could tell your face don′t lie

They got bloodhounds to sniff you out
No matter where you are
So, don't you think if they rob a pill
That you′re gonna make it fine
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

(If you're gonna be the man) Don't go break it off
(Oh, you can loose the title) No, no, no, no, no
Don′t break it off (If you′re gonna be the man)
No, no, no, no, no (Oh, you can loose the title)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no

Ooh, ooh (Law and order)
(Gotta have law and order) Tell the wale (Law and order)
(Gotta have law and order, help!) Nation and nation (Law and order)
(Gotta have law and order) Tell all the beautiful people (Law and order)
(Gotta have law and order) Call a new president (Law and order)

(Gotta have law and order) Law and order, law and order (Law and order)
(Gotta have law and order) Law and order, law and order (law and order)
(Gotta have law and order) Law and order, law and order (law and order)
(Gotta have law and order) Law and order, law and order (law and order)
Yeah
Law, law, law, law, law, law, law, law, law (Gotta have law and orde, help!)

Gotta have law and order in this land (good thing that we gotta have)
If we're ever gonna see the promised land (yeah)
Gotta have law and order in this land (Gotta have law and order in this land)
We may never get to come this way again

Gotta have law and order in this land (law)
If we′re ever gonna see the promised land (yeah)
Gotta have law and order in this land (if we're gonna live in peace)
We may never get to come this way again