Progress (Live From Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK / 1984)

(album: B-Sides - 2022)

Do you see that metal man building your car?
That's progress!
When you don't know who the real ones are
That's progress!
I'd like to watch TV tonight
But I've got to paint my windows white
If the blues don't get you, then the Valium might
That's progress!

That's progress!
That's progress!
That's progress!
They tell you, they tell you that's progress!
If that's progress
If that's progress
If that's progress
I'd rather have no gress than progress!

Follow us, we're walking sideways

Got my lead umbrella for the acid rain
That's progress!
Got my lead umbrella for the excess strain
That's progress!
The crazy level goes up one notch
With the American dream and Japanese Scotch
When you're beaten at chess by your digital watch
That's progress!

That's progress!
That's progress!
That's progress!
They tell you, they tell you that's progress!
If that's progress
If that's progress
If that's progress
I'd rather have no gress than progress!

Follow us, we're walking sideways
Follow us, we're walking sideways

TV dinner-date, monosodium glutamate
Progress!

That's progress!
That's progress!
That's progress!
They tell you, they tell you that's progress!
If that's progress
If that's progress
If that's progress
I'd rather have no gress than progress!

Follow us, we're walking sideways