Someday they won´t let you, now you must agree The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn´t free You´ve read it in the tea leaves, the tracks are on TV
Beware the savage jaw Of 1984
They´ll split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air And tell that you´re eighty, but brother you won´t care You´ll be shooting up anything like tomorrow´s wasn´t there Beware the savage jaw Of 1984
(Come see, come see, remember me?) We played out an all night movie role You said it would last, but I guess we´ve grown In 1984 (who could ask for more) 1984 (who could ask for more)
Now we can talk in confidence Did you guess that we´ve been done wrong Lies jumped the queue to be first in line Such a shameless design
He thinks he´s well screened from the man at the top It´s a shame that his children disagree They cooly decide to sell him down the line Daddy´s brainwashing time
He´s a do do, no no didn´t hear it from me He´s a do do, no no didn´t hear it from me
She doesn´t recall her blessed childhood out of yore When a unit was a figure not a she When lovers chose each other seems the perk´s are due
Another memo to screw
She´s a do do, no no didn´t hear it from me She´s a do do, no no didn´t hear it from me
Can you wipe your nose my child without them slotting in your file a photograph Will you sleep in fear tonight wake to find the scorching light of neighbour Jim Come to, turn you in
But the do do, no no, didn´t hear it from me Another do do, no no, didn´t hear it from me Another do do, no no, didn´t hear it from me Another do do, no no, didn´t hear from me
Come see, come see, remember me? We played out an all night movie role
You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled In 1984 (who could ask for more) 1984 (who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore) (Mor-or-or-or-ore)