The Fake Sound of Progress

Somebody told me that I'd always have to bow

If that was true I would have fallen apart by now

The more you think, the less you act their way

So can you hear this, the fake sound of progress

Never reason with a fool, but is that unkind,

Looks like I've lost my mind once again

I know it all sounds so contrived, but it's got to me

You know I've got to be more than this

Don't frown, don't scorn, cause I walk a different street to you

You look so worn, I bet that life has has got you down

But it will never get to me

Somebody told me that I'd always have to bow

If that was true I would have fallen apart by now

The more you think, the less you act their way

So can you hear this, the fake sound of progress

And I feel the way you hold, hold me back from this

Chances that I've missed, now they're gone

Apathy is all I sense, the feeling's too intense

Sitting on the fence, can't decide

Don't frown, don't scorn, cause I walk a different street to you

You look so worn, I bet that life has got you down

But it will never get to me

Somebody told me that I'd always have to bow

If that was true I would have fallen apart by now

The more you think, the less you act their way

So can you hear this, the fake sound of progress

All these words that I can't afford,

Never feel another day

All these times that I need more, make me take away

Tell me now, can you hear the sound

Of all these people falling down

growing back into the ground, make me smile again...

Tell me now, Can you hear the sound?

Of records spinning round n round

But all in all it seems like the same old song

That I keep on singing, It sounds like....

(dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah...)

Yea it sounds like, yea, yea, yea,it sounds like this

All these words that I can't afford, never feel another day,

All these times that I want more, make me take away

All these words that I can't afford, I'll never feel another day

It makes me take away

(away.... away ... the fake sound... the fake sound...)

Somebody told me that I always have to bow

If that was true I would have fallen apart by now

The more you think, the less you act their way

So can you hear this, the fake sound of progress

(The fake sound of progress... the fake sound of progress... the fake sound of progress...)

Make me smile again

Make me smile again, yeah

Make me smile again