http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIxScJ5rlY&ob=av3e
This song as a whole reminds me a lot of people like Winston. Let's look at the lyrics and see why:
"Me and all my friends, we're all misunderstood. They say we stand for nothing, there's no way we ever could." This represents people like Winston who glance around during hate week and wonder if people feel the way that they do, not really hating but just following the crowd. They really are misunderstood. And the second part of the verse shows how Julia's and Winston's protest is meaningful they don't stand for nothing.
"Now we see everything that's going wrong, with the world and those who lead it, and just feel like we don't have the means to rise above and beat it. So we keep waitin' waitin' on the world to change." The members of Oceania especially those in the ministry of truth, knew what Big Brother was doing and still feel helpless against the might that is Big Brother. So they (most of them) idly wait and don't take action and wait for the world to change.
"It's hard to beat the system when we're standing at a distance." You can't beat Big Brother because you are too distant from the inner party (and why would you want to when Big Brother provides so much more than the capitalists ever did).
"And if we had the power, to bring our neighbors home from war" If we could end this endless war against EastEurasia, a thought that protesters against Big Brother may have.
"And when you trust your television, what you get is what you got 'cause when they own the information, they can bend it all they want." That doesn't' sound like the ministry of truth now does it? You're right the ministry of truth doesn't stop at bending the information, they completely manipulate it.
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