My Top 1000 Songs #452: Lawyers Guns & Money
What's not to love about "Lawyers Guns & Money," from Warren Zevon's 1978 LP Excitable Boy? Sure, "Werewolves of London" got most of the attention, and the title track is pretty great (albeit yet another ugly song about a murderer, and we just had one of those). But "Lawyers" is the highlight for me. Killer guitar riff. Wickedly amusing lyrics ("I'm hiding in Honduras; I'm a desperate man. Send lawyers, guns, and money, the shit has hit the fan").
Plus, as a lawyer, there just aren't enough good songs about us.
Live 1980:Live on tv, 1989:
I think that math teachers get even less love in terms of songs about us! This is one of those songs that, as soon as I think about it at all, floods my mental radio station. This song will be playing in my head for most of the rest of the day now. Thank you for reminding me of it and improving my day!
ReplyDeleteI suppose you have Death Cab For Cutie's "Long Division."
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