That's Progress - Jello Biafra with D.O.A.

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?-Mall

What's that spell?- Shopping Mall



'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 nasty things you do



Bought a dossier on your whole 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




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