"Lawyers in Love," Jackson Browne (1983)
A giddy song about spiritual collapse
Peak: #13 on the Hot 100
Streams: 6.8 million
Throughout “Lawyers in Love,” Craig Doerge plays a synthesizer riff that sounds like something from an old-school sci-fi film. It’s perfect. In the second verse, Browne sings about God sending spaceships down to America in the 80s, only to discover a bunch of people mindlessly eating in front of their TVs. The…
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