Tonart: D minor•
Verse 1
Gm
F
This is a public service
Verse 2
announcement
Gm
Ladies and gentlemen,
we are now entering
F
If we all take a few basic precautions
Verse 3
May I make some observations?
Dm
Axiom 1 for the world we've begun:
Verse 4
Gm
Dm
Your reputation used to depend on
What you concealed
Gm
Dm
Now it depends
Verse 5
F
The age of secretive mandarins who
Dm
creep on heels of tact is dead:
A
Dm
We are all players now in the
great game of fact instead
Bb
So since you can't keep your
cards to your chest
F
I'd suggest you think a few
Dm
Am
Dm
moves ahead
F
As one does when playing
Verse 6
Dm
Gm
Axiom 2 to make the world
new:
Dm
Gm
Paranoia's simply a word
Verse 7
for see
Dm
ing things as they are
Act as you wish to be seen to act
C
Or leave for some other star
Verse 8
F
Somebody is prying through your files,
probably
Dm
Somebody's hand is in your tin
of Netscape magic cookies
Bb
But relax: if you're an
Dm
Bb
interesting person
Dm
F
Morally good in your acts
A
You have nothing to fear from facts
Verse 9
Dm
Axiom 3 for transparency:
Verse 10
In the age of information the
only way to hide facts
Is with interpretations,
there is no way to stop the free exchange
C
Am
C
Of idle speculations
Verse 11
F
In the days before communication
privacy meant staying at home
Dm
Sitting in the dark with the curtains shut
unsure whether to answer the phone
Bb
F
But these are different times,
Gm
Bb
now the bottom line
F
Is that everyone should
A
F
prepare to be known
A
Most of your friends will still like you fine
Verse 12
F
Bb
X said to Y what A said to B
C
Dm
B wrote an E- mail and sent it to me
Bb
C
I showed C and C wrote to A:
A
Flaming world war three
Verse 13
Bb
Cm
F
Bb
Cut, paste, forward, copy
Ebm
CC, go with the flow
Ab
Bbm
Our ambition should be to love
Ab
C#
what we finally know
Bb
Or, if it proves unloveable,
Interlude 1
Gm
F
Gm
F
Verse 14
Dm
Axiom 4 for this world I adore:
Verse 15
Gm
Our loyalties should shift
According to what we know
C
And who we are speaking to
Verse 16
C
F
Once I was loyal to you,
and prepared to be against information
Dm
Now I am loyal to information,
maybe I'm disloyal to you
Bb
My loyalty becomes more complex and cubist
F
with every new fact I learn
It depends who I'm speaking to
A
And who they speak to in turn
Verse 17
Dm
Axiom 5 for information workers who
Gm
Dm
wish to stay alive:
Verse 18
Supply, never withhold,
the information requested
C
With total disregard for interests
Verse 19
Personal and vested
C
F
Chinese whispers was an
analogue game
Dm
Where the signal degraded
between brain and brain
Bb
Digital whispers is the same in reverse
F
The word we spread gets better,
not worse
Am
A
Better, not worse
Verse 20
F
Bb
X said to Y what A said to B
C
Dm
B wrote an E- mail and sent it to me
F
C
I showed C and C wrote to A:
A
Flaming world war three
Verse 21
Bb
F
Bb
Cut, paste, forward, copy
Ebm
CC, go with the flow
Ab
Our ambition should be
Bbm
Ab
Db
to love what we finally know
Bb
Or, if it proves unloveable,
Outro 1
Gm
F
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