The Price of Progress

A time remembered from a different era A warm and gentle memory When families prayed and stayed together And you were here by me We walked holding hands by the river's edge Alone and at peace with the earth Conquering the universe on our own Giving it all it was worth We were moving mountains and changing the world Standing strong for what we believed It seems as though it were all in vain We spent a lifetime being deceived Could it be that we were better then Surviving misbegotten ideals Were we a force to be reckoned with The secret that nature reveals Maybe the world didn't need to be changed Maybe it was best left alone There were people who spoke of living their dreams While we had dreams of our own I guess in the name of progress we gain But in the end there is so much lost There once was an innocence in all that we did Was the progression worth the cost?