TV has made me blind
Searchin' in the tube tryin' to find
A little more than my own reflection
Bad news seems worse today
We suffer from what politicians tell me
Is a general lack of direction

Hope someone comes along and evens up the score
It's almost 1984

You call the clock for twenty years
Machines talk and people do the listenin'
No more verses I buy needed my way

Those songs on the radio
Just the facts that figures of the gas war
We're all dead of a nation's a highway

I'd gladly trade it all for what's behind the door
It's almost 1984

Now I can stand up, and shout, freedom
So loud, someone will hear
They don't, miss it
They say, nothing to fear
It's the luxury in a year

The say we're movin' fast
Competitions gone, we finish last
There's a vanishing breed in the makin'
Don't tell me 'bout right or wrong
I've heard that some can see me dancin'
In the shadows of children forsaken

Meanwhile some nuclear waste has washed upon the shore
It's almost 1984

Now I can stand up, and shout, freedom
So loud, someone will hear
They don't, miss it
They say, nothing to fear