Someday they won't let you, but now you must agree   The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free   You've read it in the tea leaves, the tracks are on TV   Beware the savage jaw    Of 1984      They'll break your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air   And tell you that you're eighty, but lover you won't care   You'll be shooting up as usual like tomorrow wasn't there   Beware the savage jaw    Of 1984      Come see, come see, remember me?   We played at an all night movie role   You said it would last, but I guess we rolled   In 1984 (who could ask for more)   1984 (who could ask for more)      Now we can talk in confidence   Did you guess that we've been done wrong?   Lies jump in queue to be first in line   Such a shameless design      He thinks he's well screened from the man at the top   It's a shame that his children disagree   They coolly decide to sell him down the line   Daddy's brainwashing time      He's a dodo, no no, didn't hear it from me (didn't hear it from me)   He's a dodo, no no, didn't hear it from me (didn't hear it from me)      She's doesn't recall her blessed childhood of yore   When a unit was a figure, not a she   When lovers chose each other seems the perks are due   Another memo to screw      She's a dodo, no no, didn't hear it from me (didn't hear it from me)   She's a dodo, no no, didn't hear it from me (didn't hear it from me)      Can you wipe your nose my child   Without them slotting in your file a photograph?   Will you sleep in fear tonight?   Wake to find the scorching light of neighbour Jim   He's come to turn you in      Another dodo, no no, didn't hear it from me (didn't hear it from me)   Another dodo, no no, didn't hear it from me (didn't hear it from me)   Another dodo, no no, didn't hear it from me (didn't hear it from me)      Come see, come see, remember me?   We played at an all night movie role   You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled   In 1984, who could ask for more   1984, who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore   Mor-or-or-or-ore      1984   1984 (who could ask for more)   1984   1984 (who could ask for more)   1984   1984 (who could ask for more)   1984   Ooooo