[Intro] "Come on, get your phone ready, little sheep! Today is the national holiday... well, if the server doesn't crash! Scan here, scan there, and do the Macarena!") [Verse 1] To go see the tanks and the big drum corps roll by, You need your little QR code, even to grab a fry! Twelve checkpoints, security guards stationed on every bridge, They're geolocating your steps for your own good, oh please! It's forty degrees in the shade, the glaciers are turning to mush, But make sure you sort your plastic bottles in the recycling rush. Meanwhile, the data centers are draining water from the stream, To cool the algorithms counting our every shared dream! [Chorus] Oh, long live the 14th of July under a QR code! It’s the grand parade of petty rules and methods bestowed! We dance the Macarena, right, left, sit down, stand tall, They tell us it's just to protect us from it all! Scan your life, scan your dog, scan your parasol, Welcome to Freedom... on a mobile phone screen after all! [Verse 2] We don't have enough Canadair planes, they cost a bit too much, But the Earth is a billion years old, it doesn't care for wars such! Scientists are inventing cells one hundred percent artificial, While we pee in lakes full of toxic cyanobacterial drift or foul. "It's the dogs swimming!" cries a lady in a panic fright, While they rewrite History through Senate decrees overnight. The privileges of August 4th? They never really worked out, It's always the same VIP boxes keeping the wine flowing about! [Chorus] Oh, long live the 14th of July under a QR code! It’s the grand parade of petty rules and methods bestowed! We dance the Macarena, right, left, sit down, stand tall, They tell us it's just to protect us from it all! Scan your life, scan your dog, scan your parasol, Welcome to Freedom... on a mobile phone screen after all! [Verse 3] They want to commit "globocide" or block out the sun's glare, So it doesn't get too hot while the population's unaware! In Science magazines they explain we age way too fast, That at twenty we're crumbling, youth disappearing at last! They erase the memories of the old, euthanize what was before, So the new science can reinvent our future evermore. But me, I'm taking my doggy for a swim at eight in the evening, Far from the warning signs and the prophets of frightening! [Chorus] Oh, long live the 14th of July under a QR code! It’s the grand parade of petty rules and methods bestowed! We dance the Macarena, right, left, sit down, stand tall, They tell us it's just to protect us from it all! Scan your life, scan your dog, scan your parasol, Welcome to Freedom... on a mobile phone screen after all! [Final Outro] [Music speeds up, sounds of cash register beeps and car horns] So watch the parade nice and cozy on your TV screen, Record it on a loop so you don't get caught unseen! We'll all chip in to buy a Canadair plane somehow, While waiting for the rest... (Final beep... "Error 404: Health pass expired!").
