Often mistaken for social satire (on '80s materialism), this was actually about nuclear détente and the way world leaders play games with the lives of innocent citizens. Lawyers In Love was Browne's most political album.
Browne called this song "a political satire based on the delusion in the United States that there would be nothing in the world if there were no Russians." It didn't go as planned. "The vast majority of my audience could not get the height of that song," he explained. "They did not understand it, probably as a result of the misconception that I could not be satirical. In addition, political affairs are also much less clear to the younger generations than I thought."
Browne got the title from his brother-in-law, how told him that Los Angeles looked like it "had been designed by lawyers in love."
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