Dictate of Transparency - Samael

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