That’s Progress

Lyrics

Give me an M! ("M!") Give me an A! ("A!") Give me a U! ("U!") Give me an L! ("L!") Give me your money! ("Sure!") What's that spell? ("Maul!") What's that spell? ("Shopping maul!") 'Scuse me, pardon my greed You're evicted, time to leave Don't matter if your family's lived here 30 years We're tripling the rent Time's up, the sheriff's here Too bad for you if you freeze out on the street The croissant and cookie palace Downstairs will symbolize The old neighborhood whose soul has slowly died Been gentrified Aw yeah! That's progress! Doesn't progress make you feel good inside? Cameras catch you runnin' red lights Schoolrooms with no windows Computer picks your career at age 15 Universal Price Code I.D.'s With the stripe the laser reads And records where you've been, when you're sick, and what you eat For every spy in government, there's 50 private eyes Who round up dirt on you to keep on file Then sell the file Aw yeah! That's progress! Doesn't progress make you feel good inside? That's progress! That's progress! Progress don't make me feel so good inside You can't live here, we won't hire you We know all the nasty things you do Bought a dossier of your whole life Turn it back to the pranks you did in school at age 5 There's millions on file at the touch of a button Your boss or your landlord will love our choice cuts of gossip If it's lies, what can you do? 'Cause it costs too much to sue And the last person who'll ever see your file is you Had enough, I moved back home To the mountains where I belong But ski resorts have tamed the wild west The hills we used to roam Now they're privately owned And scarred with cheesy suburbs and cement The 'Tracts For Sale' sign promises deer in your back yard If the deer somehow get past the fences and guards And the industrial park Oh, no! Not again! All this progress makes me feel ill inside! That's progress! That's progress! Looks like I'll have to move to Yellowknife Progress (bleah) Progress (bleah) Progress (bleah) Progress (bleah) Your idea of progress wrecks too many lives