Progress

Maybe they started out counting sheep
Maybe they started counting stones
One thing I'll tell you 'bout those human beings
is they never could leave well enough alone
One day it's telescopes and catapults
Next thing it's microscopes and guns
What's the use of climbing up the mountain if you only wind up staring at the sun?

Look at the work of Michelangelo
and tell me if we've come so far
One hundred eighty years since Beethoven died
I can barely even play on this guitar
Are we getting closer to perfection?
Do we still have anything to say?
Are we improving our expression
while our souls are getting smaller every day?

Everything gets better all the time
Everything gets better all the time
Sleeker, smaller, newer, taller
faster, cleaner, safer, leaner
Everything gets better all the time
Oh, everything gets better all the time
Look around: the world's contracted;
every day we're more distracted
Everything gets better all the time
Everything gets better all the time...