Midnight Oil - Progress Lyrics
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
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
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.
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Midnight Oil Progress Comments
I’m old-school Oils and hadn’t heard this.. Awesome. Keep going Peter Garrett :)
Abbey R. Lee it’s on Bird Noises and Scream In Blue (live). I love this song.
awesome... it's loud
If anyone here does NOT have the Oils' "Scream in Blue", go get it NOW!! The version of Progress there is the impromptu live version from New York after the Exxon Valdez-fantastic!
Oh yeah i agree, the scream in blue live version guitar solo, voice and global energy is just legend !!
Great !
Zajekurwabiste!
Progress-best writing of any Oils artwork!-"Some Say That Is Progress! I Say That Is Cruel!"-Peter Garrett should win a Pulitzer Prize! Midnight Oil Forever!
Cool I like both Midnight Oil and The Matrix
YEaY! Great to see this up here! Looked for it before and was missing it...