Progress
[Intro sample: Rabbi Jonathan Rietti]:
“And when we consider the extraordinary times we live in
The advances in technology the explosion of information on every subject
Do we experience more clarity and peace or is there actually confusion?
If we have so much information we have so much technology to allow our lifestyle to be one of greater comfort, why isn’t there more peace in our lives?”

[Verse 1: Moshe Friedman]
What is progress?  Is it a space race contest?
Advances in economics or a scientific conquest?
Is it squeezing more pixels on my TV screen
Or another percentage point in our GDP?
Mass production to make my shoes a little cheaper
Smart phones so I don’t have to use my beeper
New diets to help me live a little longer
Spend more time retired and become a better golfer
They say we need to keep growing like a grape vine
With no end in sight like the Texas state line
We’ve got 5 and 6 but we need 7 8 9
Don’t know where we’re headed but we’re making great time
What’s the cost of progress?  We don’t begin to ask
We’re waiting for tomorrow, present’s already in the past
But now we’re moving too fast to even call it quits
The progress of a billion humans marching off the cliff
[Chorus: Rick Fox]
We build so tall to top them all
But one day they’ll fall
And our bricks will never be strong enough
And our arms will never be long enough
We live our lives to touch the sky
But one day we’ll realize
It never ends, it never ends

[Verse 2: Moshe Friedman]
When will we be done?  When will we have made it?
Is it even possible for us to be satiated?
Cuz fortunes fall, fortunes rise
People live, people die
Nations flourish and they decline, we’re no exception
Anything we build on can be still destroyed
What will be left then for us to fill the void?
But we can build with something stronger than a hard brick
A kind of progress not measured by a yard stick
We can build wisdom and knowledge we won’t part with
We can build character to help us face our hardships
We can build love to win the war against evil
In one word, we can build people
Makes you wonder why they don’t teach this in schools
And money, health, government, and science are great tools
But tools in the hands of fools just means disaster
Progress, a great servant but a terrible master
[Chorus]