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Related: About this forumThis Song Came Out In 1982
Judas Priest
Electric Eye
From the album Screaming for Vengeance.
Lyrics:
Up here in space
Im looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think you've private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
Im watching all the time
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
Always in focus
You cant feel my stare
I zoom into you
You dont know Im there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
Theres nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
Protected. detective. electric eye
naaman fletcher
(7,362 posts)I've know every word to that since then.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Iggo
(47,487 posts)Very kickass guitar lead in that song.
Very kickass.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)You are constantly on surveillance in London..............
jonthebru
(1,034 posts)Its frickin' Judas Priest's fault!
Interesting concept that I have heard in discussion of this issue somewhere: If people know they are being surveilled they change their behavior. So the "powers that be" need only say that surveillance is occurring and the citizens fall in line and do not disrupt anything. That is the really scary part. Social engineering by the 1%, easily done.
The occupy movement for all its shortcomings was on to something.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Great song, great album, great band.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)I bought this album when it came out in 1982. I've been a fan ever since the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal days of the late '70s/early '80s.
At the time Rob Halford said the lyrics to this were "science fiction." I wonder what he thinks now.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)as does the rest of Priest.
sheldon
(233 posts)corkhead
(6,119 posts)Who's watching
Tell me, who's watching
Who's watching me
I'm just an average man
With an average life
I work from nine to five
Hey, hell, I pay the price
All I want is to be left alone
In my average home
But why do I always feel
Like I'm in the twilight zone
And (I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
And I have no privacy
Whooooa-oh-oh
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
Tell me, is it just a dream
When I come home at night
I bolt the door real tight
People call me on the phone
I'm trying to avoid
But can the people on TV see me
Or am I just paranoid
When I'm in the shower
I'm afraid to wash my hair
'Cause I might open my eyes
And find someone standing there
People say I'm crazy
Just a little touched
But maybe showers remind me
Of Psycho too much
That's why
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
And I have no privacy
Whooooa, oh-oh
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
Who's playin' tricks on me
[Instrumental Interlude]
(Who's watching me)
I don't know anymore
Are the neighbors watching me
(Who's watching)
Well, is the mailman watching me
(Tell me, who's watching)
And I don't feel safe anymore
Oh, what a mess
I wonder who's watching me now
(Who)
The IRS
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
And I have no privacy
Whooooa, oh-oh
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
Tell me, is it just a dream
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
And I have no privacy
Whooooa, oh-oh
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
Who's playin' tricks on me
(Who's watching me)
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
Oooooooh
Whooooa-oh-oh
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
So ? who can it be
(Who's watching me)
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
Whooooa-oh-oh
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
Who's playing tricks on me
(Who's watching me)
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
Can I have my privacy
Whooooa-oh-oh
(I always feel like)
(Somebody's watching me)
Who's playing tricks on me
vt_native
(484 posts)Fuck Yeah!
PopeOxycontinI
(176 posts)and all presidents since Nixon are constantly
BREAKIN' THE LAW BREAKIN' THE LAW.