Our phones locations are tracked via satellites up among the stars,
Our lives are just data, seemingly offered up on a plate.
Our movements are tracked through the license plates of our cars,
Welcome the world that we all live in, the surveillance state.

They see our world via millions of not so hidden ears and eyes,
They observe our lives, what we do and do not manage.
They watch us invisibly, like shadow shrouded spies,
They claim to protect us but they can also do damage.

Devices we created for our own protection,
Supposedly keeping us honest, on the path right and true.
Also open to abuse and spying since their very inception,
Watching every move that we make and all that we do.

Electronic ears that are listening to our conversations and calls,
Every sound we make heard even if to whisper we try.
Electronic eyes that are bolted on our roofs and walls,
Our very footsteps just reflection in a lifeless glass eye.

Our personal matters now seem open to all, on land, sea and sky,
Our right to privacy eroded no matter how hard we tried.
No longer just the threats and the guilty are kept tabs on from on high,
No matter how innocent we are, we have nowhere left to hide.