watching me

Someone somewhere's watching me

Writing down everything they see

All I drink, and all I eat

And all of the people that I meet

All the places that I go

And all of the languages that I know

All the classes that I took

And the full name of my favorite book

Every time that I lied

And everything that I once tried

Every drug and every bed

And every strange thing that I said

All the countries, all the friends

The list goes on, it never ends

The things I bought, the things I taught

And every battle that I fought

They'll put it all into a file

And put that in a drawer for a while

And if one day they need some dirt

They'll look in there for something to hurt

There are lots of files and lots of drawers

This is the way they protect our shores

Control it all and it can't go wrong

Watch us all, watch us long

Someone, somewhere's watching me

Writing down everything they see

My file grows, with all they know

Which someday, maybe they will show

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In considering the wealth of information being collected about us

in our world today, all we can do as individuals is to trust that the

sum of that information accurately represents the dignity of our lives.

words & music dc 1995