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Their Law Lyrics
"What we're dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law"
I'm the law, and you can't breach the law
Fuck 'em, and their law
Crackdown at sundown
Fuck 'em, and their law
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Actually the song was a direct response to an Act of Parliament prohibiting large-scale raves in the mid 90s. Hence "crackdown at sundown".
Thank you. People need to know their dance music history and I'm glad someone knew this.
Thank you. People need to know their dance music history and I'm glad someone knew this.
This song is about the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act passed in the UK in 1994, which basically restricted the rights and increased penalties of various practices which the right-wing viewed as dangerous, like squatting, various forms of activism, raves, and so on. So this song is a reaction both to the direct "crackdown" against ravers, but also against the suppression of the individual's freedoms.
This is the most intelligent thing I've read on this website.
This is the most intelligent thing I've read on this website.
You must not read much on this website then. Look up a lyrics on a few Tool songs, try Forty Six & 2.
You must not read much on this website then. Look up a lyrics on a few Tool songs, try Forty Six & 2.
This has to be my favourite Prodigy song - the beats are just mind-blowing.
The lyrics actually are:
"What we're dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law"
I'm the law, and you can't breach the law
Fuck 'em, and their law
Crackdown at sundown
not my faverouite prodigy one but the guitar riffs r pretty sick
A great tune and yeh the guitar riff blends well with the beats. Check out the two performances of Their Law on the The Singles DVD, Gizz Butt the guitarist featured in both and toured with The Prodigy between 96 and 97 plays the guitar riff really good and adds that punky look to the band. The lyrics are about the giving two fingers to the law in terms of the crap laws which come out which are pretty meaningless and just cause trouble in itself. Politicans need to listen to real people instead of their own.
I always thought it was "Fuck the law that you can't restore" instead of "I'm the law, and you can't breach the law".
it's actually "I'm the law, you can't beat the law" as it says on the inset in the Singles Collection booklet
awesome tune though, the live version's sickas
No way this is the complete set of lyrics to this song, insert notwithstanding. More is said in this song than what's listed above.
doing illegal shit and listening to this song = awesome :D
Origin of "I'm the law, and you can't beat the law"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rWs4JBCqG8