[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