Act 1.4 Newspeak

[Intro] Language is clarity. Clarity is safety. Reduce expression. ⸻ [Verse 1] Words fall off like broken glass Meanings shrink but moments pass Every sentence trimmed and pared Until nothing’s really there Thoughts once wide now fit in lines Simplified across the signs If it’s shorter, it is true If it’s gone, it’s not for you ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Say less Mean less Lose excess ⸻ [Chorus] Newspeak Cut the tongue Shortened truth We become Newspeak No disguise Only what Survives ⸻ [Verse 2] Memory collapses into sound Definitions cut and drowned If you cannot say the name Then the idea is the same Vocabulary bleeding out Nothing left to talk about Every word a sharpened frame Every phrase a smaller name ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Speak clean Think thin Let it in ⸻ [Chorus] Newspeak Cut the tongue Shortened truth We become Newspeak No disguise Only what Survives ⸻ [Bridge] Speak Spk Sk S Meaning bending into dust Nothing left that we can trust If the word no longer stays Does the thought still find a way? ⸻ [Final Chorus] News Speak We Break Truth Shrink We Think ⸻ [Outro] Expression is inefficient. Inefficiency has been removed.