Tonalidad: D minor•
Verse 1
Gm
F
This is a public service
Verse 2
announcement
Gm
Ladies and gentlemen,
we are now entering
F
The age of information
Gm
It's perfectly safe
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
C
on what you reveal
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
A
a game of chess
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,
Eb
simply to go
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,
Eb
simply to go
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Gm
F
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