Look at the progress we've made
Get your vitamin quota in your soup ready made
Forget that there's hunger around you
Look at the progress we've seen
Perhaps you should cut down on sugar and cream
You can't b***on your jacket around you
Overcrowded world, what happens now?
Better pray to your gods and hope that some how
Far from the shack you call home
They aren't burning the grain that has ripened and grown
'Cause the prices have fallen again
So eat up your rice Billy dear
They're starving in India
'Least that's what I hear
Come on my child, cram it down you
Eat up your rice Billy dear
They're starving in India
'Least that's what I hear
Come on my child, cram it down you
But we are okay in our shiny new car
Look at us now, you can see we've come far
And here I am playing elecric guitar
Look at the progress we've made
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Once there was a man
Who spoke his thoughts out loud
Who believed in what he said
And walked out in the crowd
But they took him and they taught him
What they wanted him to say
Once there was a man
Once there was a world
In which a man could live
In which a tree could grow
In which a man could give
But they took it and they churned it
Into mud and brick and steel
Once there was a world
Thus each man kills the thing he loves
And each man fails to see
The lessons on the page of history
Once there was a life
A beginning and an end
But now that's dead and gone
So tell me who will send
A man to live and breathe
And in the end destroy?
Once there was a life
Once there was a world
Once there was a man
Get your vitamin quota in your soup ready made
Forget that there's hunger around you
Look at the progress we've seen
Perhaps you should cut down on sugar and cream
You can't b***on your jacket around you
Overcrowded world, what happens now?
Better pray to your gods and hope that some how
Far from the shack you call home
They aren't burning the grain that has ripened and grown
'Cause the prices have fallen again
So eat up your rice Billy dear
They're starving in India
'Least that's what I hear
Come on my child, cram it down you
Eat up your rice Billy dear
They're starving in India
'Least that's what I hear
Come on my child, cram it down you
But we are okay in our shiny new car
Look at us now, you can see we've come far
And here I am playing elecric guitar
Look at the progress we've made
********************************************
Once there was a man
Who spoke his thoughts out loud
Who believed in what he said
And walked out in the crowd
But they took him and they taught him
What they wanted him to say
Once there was a man
Once there was a world
In which a man could live
In which a tree could grow
In which a man could give
But they took it and they churned it
Into mud and brick and steel
Once there was a world
Thus each man kills the thing he loves
And each man fails to see
The lessons on the page of history
Once there was a life
A beginning and an end
But now that's dead and gone
So tell me who will send
A man to live and breathe
And in the end destroy?
Once there was a life
Once there was a world
Once there was a man