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