Smart Speakers

Smart speakers - they're keeping tabs on you
Smart speakers - watching everything you do
You love the way they give you information
You laugh when they start a conversation

But can't you hear them when you go to bed much later
They are crunching all your personal data
They're talking to your bank and to your car
They're checking through your laptop and even your refrigerator

All those tiny sparkling shiny fairy-lights of data
All that volume and velocity, those terabytes of data
And you don't even think about it till someone wants to trace
The precise coordinates of your beautiful face

Oh Alexa, how you played me
Oh Alexa, you betrayed me

Now you're like a fugitive in your own home
You look behind you all the time and whisper on the phone
When finally the police arrive you hoped that you'd be braver
As they present you with your own compromised behaviour

Smart speakers - they're keeping tabs on you
Smart speakers - watching everything you do
You forgot that they just play pretend
You started to believe they were your friend

But can't you hear them when you go to bed much later
They are crunching all your personal data
All those tiny sparkling shiny fairy-lights of data
All that volume and velocity, those terabytes of data