Progress — текст песни (midnight oil)

Say yes to 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

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
Open your eyes if you dare
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 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
Some say that`s progress I say that`s cruel