I'm running and running out of places to go
The fugitive 'cos I spoke the forbidden word
AntiChrist of the constitutional bible
Singing phrases that should have gone unheard

All the demons fly with transistor radios
Ready to pounce on the angels of truth
Beating down hard upon the lonely ones
Re-educating them with their darkened couth

The disposable tomes of the high altars
Scream out words prepared beforehand
Extra, Extra - read all about nothing
Built upon double-talk previously foreplanned

The popes and priests and televangelists
Stand robed up high on Capitol hill
Pounding thought-policing legislations
Eating stolen dollars until they get their empty fill...


We blindly live our shrouded lives
In a field of trust and truth overgrown
We rejoiced when we tore down the iron curtain
But what about that curtain of our own?

What is our thought policy?
Who are our thought police?
Who is watching us? Who is watching me?

WHAT ARE THEY TELLING US NOW?
WHAT ARE THEY FEEDING US NOW?
(i don't know)


The newscasters read between the crossed-out lines
Unflinching, unfettered with plastique-etched smiles
Driving the misinformation superhighway
Infesting the minds for countless miles

Scribes scribble scrolls of surreptitious slander
The unauthorized lash on paper lives
A quick-read for an even quicker buck
When truth protests, the censors do arrive

Masses march for the benefit of special interest
Together proclaiming vindication and grace
They burn their forests to make their billboards
Yet they are told that they're saving our race

The holy men pray for all the sinners
But their inconsistencies drown out their voice
They rot our ears out with good virtues and will
While telling us that there is no other choice!


We blindly live our shrouded lives
In a field of trust and truth overgrown
We rejoiced when we tore down the iron curtain
But what about that curtain of our own?


We are prisoners of the shattered mind!
Underneath the ruins, what shall we find?


What is our thought policy?
Who are our thought police?
Who is watching us? Who is watching me?


Just tell me straight!