Lyrics

[Verse 1] We went into town on the Tuesday night Searching all the places that you hang about We're looking for you In the back street cellar dive drinking clubs In the discotheques and the gaming pubs We're looking for you [Refrain] Over the bridge by the old canal Where the shadows dance on the lighted wall He stopped to light up a cigarette And we dived into a doorway [Verse 2] We picked up the trail at the Seven Crowns One of your cronies, he was doing your rounds We followed him Just a silhouette figure up Market Pass Where the headlamps shine on the broken glass We followed him [Refrain] Over the bridge by the old canal Where the shadows dance on the lighted wall He stopped to light up a cigarette And we dived into a doorway [Chorus] No police, no summons, no courts of law (No, no, no, no) No proper procedure, no rules of war (No, no, no, no) No mitigating circumstance (No, no, no, no) No layers fees, no second chance (No, no, no, no) [Verse 3] There are lasses getting trouble on their own home beat There are old folk battered in the open street In this city of hours There are eyes that see but say nothing at all There are ears that hear but they don't recall In this city of hours [Refrain] So we followed your man back to your front door And we're waiting for you outside 'Cause not everybody here is scared of you Not everybody passes on the other side [Chorus] No police, no summons, no courts of law (No, no, no, no) No proper procedure, no rules of war (No, no, no, no) No mitigating circumstance (No, no, no, no) No layers fees, no second chance (No, no, no, no) [Bridge] And we could spend our whole lives Waiting for some thunderbolt to come And we could spend our whole lives Waiting for some justice to be done Unless we make our own [Chorus] No police, no summons, no courts of law (No, no, no, no) No proper procedure, no rules of war (No, no, no, no) No mitigating circumstance (No, no, no, no) No layers fees, no second chance (No, no, no, no) [Spoken Outro] So you've acknowledged a couple of cameras here tonight Last night there was seventy-three cameras Including the one on the sort of robot thing And eventually they all come out And you'll be able to judge just what is kind of real and what is not Because more or less, everything you ever see on a screen is kind of fixed This is um, this is from a long time ago I think it's actually written about us appearing on television somewhere And uh, we'll play you this