Diminishing Returns

From Aaron Mark Brown's 2012 release "Realities of Grandeur".

http://www.aaronmarkbrown.com

Lyrics:

You've been working for a long time
Holed up in your precious lab
Engineering silver bullets
Easy answers such as that

We won't have to use our legs now
We won't have to use our arms
Or know how to feed our families
How to keep them safe from harm

We'll just step into your office
And we'll leave the world behind
We don't eat the things we grow there
Because they're only in our mind

You receive a hero's welcome
All the people step in line
Mistaking progress for evolution
Easy money, but not mine

I'm not coming out to meet you
I'm not waving from the yard
I'll be canning in the kitchen
I'll be shoveling in the barn
I'll be out there doing simple things
That simple people do that make them people

I'm not coming out to meet you
I'm not going to meet the train
We'll be sweating in the sunshine
We'll be singing in the rain
We'll be men and women
We're old folds and children
All together come the weather

We'll be stopping for a stranger
We'll touch the dying and the dead
Getting by without the experts
We'll be baking our own bread
We'll be out there doing simple things
That simple people do that make them people