We Are the Dead Lyrics

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Cover art for We Are the Dead lyrics by David Bowie

This is the fragment of the book "1984" which inspired Bowie:

She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse. "We are the dead", he said.