The New Pornographers
"The Laws Have Changed"

It was crime at the time but the laws, we changed íem
though the hero for hire ís forever the same one.

Introducing for the first time,
Pharaoh on the microphone.
Sing all hail,
what'll be revealed today.
when we peer into the great unknown,
from the line to the throne.

Awakened to cheers after years on the faultline,
we are shocked to be here in the face of the meantime.

Pharaoh, all your methods have taught me,
is to separate my blood from bone.
It will all fail,
feel what I feel today.
when we peer into the great unknown,
from the line to the throne.
Form a line through here,
form a line to the throne...

Alone in the chain, it remains to be seen how,
how well you can play when the pawn takes a queen now.

Introducing for the first time,
Pharaoh on the microphone.
Sing all hail,
what'll be revealed today
when we peer into the great unknown,
from the line to the throne?
Sing all hail,
what'll be revealed today
when we peer into the great unknown,
from the line to the throne?
Form a line through here,
form a line to the throne...

It was crime at the time but the laws have changed, yeah.