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The shadow, it grows longer every night

Automation and robotics to simplify

What was done by hand is done by machine

What was seen by eye is seen by screen

Glued to MTV in an empty room

Eating newly microwaved frozen food

I rarely stir and I rarely blink my eye

Because my T.V., you know, it keeps me hypnotized

What would come of us now

What would come of us then

What about the feelings in my heart

What will become of them

I know a man who lives in a cave

He's never heard of war, Chrysler, or AIDS

He just sits around living from day to day

The Shadow of Progress has left him unscathed

The air in the valley's unsafe today

There's a black cloud of shit that's headed my way

I wish I were the man who lived in the cave

Where the Shadow of Progress is still years away

My heart buckled under stress and strain

A Jarvik-7 keeps me living in pain

What do these bloodthirsty butchers want from me

I can tell them now that their machine won't bleed