When we take things we do not own,
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine?
Whose is the Kingdom, the power and the glory?
For ever and ever, will it be the same old story?
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own,
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine?
Whose is the Kingdom, the power and the glory?
For ever and ever, will it be the same old story?
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But turns the bigger robber loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.
Whose is the Kingdom, the power and the glory?
For ever and ever, will it be the same old story?
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break.
This must be so, but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
Whose is the Kingdom, the power and the glory?
For ever and ever, will it be the same old story?
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break.
That must be so, but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But turns the bigger robber loose
