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Nineteen Eighty​-​Four

from Swagatouille by J Eazy

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[intro]
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

[hook]
nsa on my phone what am i gonna say now
big brother in my home what am i gonna say now
who's listening who's recording what am i gonna say now
what am i gonna say when it's 1984 now
1984 now 1984 now
2013 but it's 1984 now
1984 now 1984 now
2013 but it's 1984 now

[verse 1]
what am i gonna say now can't talk on my phone now
all movements are monitored so i'm never alone now
who's looking through the webcam on the other side?
facetime was for two but now it's broadcast nationwide
my life is mostly jekyll but we all gotta little hyde
but the government can see both sides even if we stay inside
don't wanna go outside google cars on every corner
taking street view pictures of me each and every morning
man i wanna mourn the death of my privacy
if obama's listening i say fuck democracy
capitalists in the building please stand up
now get your fucking hands in these diamond handcuffs

[interlude]
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”

[verse 2]
what are you gonna do now that you have finally found out
what should have been obvious and clear from the very start now
running round with your smart phones texting thousand times a day
putting your life on the internet without having anything real to say
share your profile with your friends, friends of friends and then they friends
everybody wanna get their quote unquote life on the internet
what's the difference if it's getting accessed by the government
honestly obamas prolly laughing or he's bored to death
selfies in the bathroom, preteen beauty pagents
this the life you're feeding to the secret service agents
get your fawkes masks kids time for action no more coma
throw away your soda cause the koolaids made by mk ultra

[interlude]
"if you want to keep a secret
you must also hide it from yourself"
"and now a word from the president"

[verse 3 - Obama]
what am i gonna do now now that the public's found out
would've gotten away with it too it weren't for that loud mouth
chasing edward snowden for committing fucking treason
cuz my administration always does things for a reason
yeah i love my drone strikes update my list everr night
clinton called the kill on tupac blamed it all on suge knight
i sleep with a night light cause i got them night terrors
war on terror got america acting like a white terror
p.s. don't blame all this b.s. on me
ain't my fault that the law allows for super PACs
and the patriot act was supported by the people
so when we talk complicity just know we fucking equal

[hook]

[outro]
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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from Swagatouille, released October 1, 2013

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