Abandoned hopes, abandoned dreams
The wreckage splitting at the seams
Our once bright past, we try to ignore
The golden age's open sores
You can't stop progress
This is progress
You can't stop progress
'Cause this is progress
It's boarded up, it's desolate
Wasted lives we try to forget
All that's left, the bitter taste
Of better times, now human waste
You can't stop progress
This is progress
You can't stop progress
'Cause this is progress
The future's so bright,
it's what they say
They tried so hard
but now it just wastes away
Living in a dead world
Living in a wasteland
There's nothing left for me
But the rotting corpse of society
You can't stop progress
This is progress
You can't stop progress
'Cause this is progress
We tried so hard, now it's decay
Our proudest work just wastes away
These are surely modern times
Our lives are falling between the lines