1984 -

Now let me start this song with a question

Are you fed up with what we’ve been peddling?

Are you really buying this anti-depression

Drug smoke-infested artistic expression?

I’m looking at the Billboard charts

There’s not one lyric that I’d call art

There’s not one song that I’d call great

Where did all the artists who contemplate go?

No, we’ve all got it backwards

Kids are educated by Instagram-famous rappers

Cuz when it all pans out there’s nothing we stand for

We just wanna stand out

But I won’t go 'til get to say

What I know, no I won’t go

Week in, week out

I don’t wanna do this anymore

It burns me out

Living like 1984

No explanation can fix what I’ve been facing, cuz

Week in, week out

I’m living like 1984

Even if this makes me hated

I’m saying it shameless

Cuz I am the same it’s

A common disease up on these Instagram pages

We’re socially weighted

Like, «Why is she famous and why is he nameless?»

You gotta have nerves of steel this world’s stainless

If you don’t have mass appeal you won’t make it

I tell myself every day to stay patient

Tell myself every day to stay —

Week in, week out

I don’t wanna do this anymore

It burns me out

Living like 1984

No explanation can fix what I’ve been facing, cuz

Week in, week out

I’m living like 1984

But I won’t go 'til get to say

What I know, no I won’t go