'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
in the street the croissant and cookie palace
downstairs will symbolize the old neighborhood
whose soul has slowly died been gentrified chorus:
that´s progress that´s progress doesn´t progress
make you feel good inside? cameras catch you
runnin' red lights schoolrooms with no windows
computer picks your carreer 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 chorus:
progress don´t make me feel so good inside you
can´t live here we won't hire you we know all the
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life clear 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? 'cos it costs too much to sue 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 cheezy 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' chorus: that´s progress
that´s progress looks like I´ll have to move to
yellowknife progress-bleah! your idea of progress
wrecks too many lives