Dictate of Transparency

It's a bit late to try and escape
 The world of today has a new shape
 Drown in the fever of control
 Freely in that trend we enroll
 No more place for conviction
 All that's real is abstraction
 Practically numb to novelties
 Incarcerated in civilities
 It's no longer the Stasi's lunacy
 The dictate of transparency
 It's our current reality
 A mutation of democracy
 Our lives open to scrutiny
 The dictate of transparency
 Our move on screen for all to see
 We dream of the time we were free
 Have we ever been free?
 Have we ever been free?
 We find ourselves on the front line
 Not knowing where to draw the line
 Free in a jail we don't perceive
 Ruled in a way we can't conceive
 It's no longer the Stasi's lunacy
 The dictate of transparency
 Our move on screen for all to see
 We dream of the time we were free
 Have we ever been free?
 Have we ever been free?
 Want to be heard - want to be seen
 Riot - fire
 We gave away privacy...
 When all our life is on display
 What else have we got to give away?
 From the obvious to the obscene
 Want to be heard, want to be seen
 All is senseless without witness...
 It's no longer the Stasi's lunacy
 The dictate of transparency
 It's our current reality
 A mutation of democracy
 Our lives open to scrutiny
 The dictate of transparency
 Our move on screen for all to see
 We dream of the time we were free