The Surveillance State
Written by Steve Wallis, 10/3/2007
Dedicated to Cath Bann (founder of Defy-ID – against ID cards and the surveillance state)
Don’t let them spy on me!
Don’t let them keep their eye on me!
Am I paranoid because I hate CCTV?
Am I scared of the eye in the sky?
Do they know our ID?
Do they know our identity?
Am I worried that the database will have lies about me?
Am I scared because I’m a revolutionary socialist?
CHORUS:
The surveillance state!
Does infiltrate!
MI5 found out the date
Of a demonstration against
The closure of our local pit!
The surveillance state!
We have a lot on our plate!
The boys in blue have given us a date
For the crime they know we’ll commit
Before we’ve even thought of it!
But they are far from invincible!
We can cause them a lot of trouble!
We can infiltrate too!
We infiltrate them and you!
Don’t let them read my mind!
I don’t know what the scanners will find!
Is it like a close encounter of the third kind?
Do TV detector vans read brainwaves too?
Don’t let them control my mind!
I wouldn’t like my thoughts to be designed!
Can they make me do something to which I’m not inclined?
Am I scared of Derren Brown on TV?
CHORUS
I have recorded this song as a musical poem, now available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file or in MP3 format.