Modern man just loves to think and invent

Until his brain gets sore

Searching, learning, adding

So our existence keeps demanding more

With each advancement we adopt

Progress

Well, it oughta be stopped

Long before they were building fires

We all survived on an uncooked meal

Nature gave us two good legs to get us around

We never needed a wheel

It's been downhill since we stood up straight

Progress

Yea, I hope it abates

Progress, man

Life was a breeze when we sat around the sun dial

Making up a myth for everything we observed

Now we try to understand invisible stars

With imaginary numbers on Euclidean curves

Math was easy when the world was flat

Progress

Man, I wanna go back

Once upon a time a bowl of leeches

Cured us of our every ill

No such thing as the uninsured

When poultry paid our doctor bills

Sicknesses were all the same

Progress, man

Simplicity's bane

Progress, yea

I'm gonna find some moldy cave

And break off a big stalactite

Club some girl and take her home

To breed a little tribe of troglodytes

In the good old' days we were all nomads

And everybody knew you either hunted or died

Thinking made us crazy and we started to farm

And now we run charity that serves world-wide

It's altruistic entropy

Progress

Well, it isn't for me

Progress

Man, I wanna go back

Progress

Yea, it's gotta be stopped

Progress, man

Well I hope they build a time machine

Cause a different age would suit me well

Send me back four billion years

When everyone was single celled