Progress

Say yes to a real life ambition

Say yes to our hopes and our plans

Forget about your indecision

Let's get the beast off our land

A tree that can grow no longer

A beach that has got no sand

I would pay out a king's ransom

If we could just understand, hey

Got your last meal filled up with pesticide

Hamburger chain, third world infanticide

Got robot car, your jobs will disappear

It's called the politics of a brand-new year

Manhattanization is coming, yeah

Open your eyes if you dare

And carry us on to the crossroads

Come to your senses and care

16 million, I can't hear you at all

Some say that's progress

I say that's cruel

Some say that's progress (oh, yeah)

I say that's cruel

You may be safe in your hemisphere

But there's so much junk in the stratosphere

We got our eyes on the firmament, hands on the armaments

Heads full of arguments, and words for our monuments

I won't deny it, can we survive?

I say (progress)

I say (progress)

I say (progress)

I say, say, say

Some say that's progress

I say that's cruel

Some say that's progress

I say that's cruel

Some say (that's progress)

Some say (that's progress)

Some say (that's progress)

Some say, say, say, say