Progress Lyrics - Midnight Oil

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 

Got your last meal, filled up with pesticide 

Hamburger chain third world infanticide 

Got robot car your jobs will disappear 

It's 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.