John and Sheila Ludgate - Nineteen Eighty-Four All Over Again

A picture’s worth a thousand words, I don’t know which are true Cause Photoshop and Instagram, do what they want with you Virtual reality, popularity
A thousand virtual friends I’ll never know and never see

The wrong kind of mind thought crimes, out of step and time With the current paradigm, the sanctioned storyline
Facts are fine if they’re the right kind, echo chamber approved Aligned with each digital mob’s own ministry of truth

Chorus
It’s 1984 all over again
The virtual version brought to you by your omnipresent digital friends Where every click, every tweet, every turn down every digital street
Is tracked and stored forevermore by the social media thought police Linked, synced and retained
In Big Brother’s digital brain It’s 1984 all over again
1984 all over again

Online dating, online gaming, the online lottery
The cult of personality and the ever changing enemy Distracted and sedated by the two-way telescreen
Big Brother’s watching and writing algorithms to tell you what to think you need

Repeat Chorus
…the double-speak, digital, refrain
…1984 all over again