Court Is In Session

Lyrics

[Intro]
(a gavel, a tennis ball bouncing, crowd murmur)
All rise.
Or don't. It's a party.

[Verse 1]
The lawyer met the tennis player somewhere near the punch,
and neither one would give an inch, and both of them had lunch
plans for tomorrow they were willing to reschedule —
'cause court is court is court, and honey, that's the golden rule.
One of 'em said "objection." One of 'em said "out."
Turns out they were arguing about the very same thing throughout.

[Chorus]
Court is in session! Court is in session!
Doesn't matter which one, honey, it's the same profession —
you approach the bench, you serve, you make your case,
somebody's gonna win and somebody's gonna face
the ruling. Court is in session!
Love means nothing. That's the lesson.

[Verse 2]
See in tennis, love means zero, means you haven't scored a thing.
In the courtroom, love means bias, means you'd better not bring
it up in front of a jury or you'll lose it on appeal.
And in business, love means nothing, 'cause there's nothing there to feel.
Three whole different meanings and they land on the same word —
prettiest little nothing that a person ever heard.

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
Advantage. Overruled. Deuce. Sustained.
Break point. Cross-examine. Let. Explain.
Two vocabularies and they're saying the same thing:
somebody's gotta lose here and somebody's gonna swing.
And courting — don't forget it — is the oldest one of all,
the only kind of court where you're supposed to drop the ball.

[Chorus]

[Outro]
(gavel, then a ball bounce, then silence)
Game.
Set.
Settlement.