"The Laws of Life"
lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

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John looked down on a grid of squares
And said: Let now a world grow there
A world that's ruled by a simple law
A law of growth and change

John looked long for a law that would
Create a world he could call good
But found no single law would serve
And this was passing strange

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	No single law could govern there
	No single law, perhaps a pair
	A law of death, and a law of life
	Could tame that teeming strife

A pair of laws would do, I think
For living worlds both grow and shrink
And these two laws must always be
Each to the other matched

At last, he said, I understand
The laws of logic force my hand
He wrote it down and this is how
The Game of Life was hatched

	One law to grow, one to restrict
	That complement, and don't conflict
	The laws are not so simple here...
	And yet the truth is clear...

Someone nurtured a primal thought
And said: Let be, where now there's not
A world that's ruled by a simple law
A law of growth and change