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Colum Sands
	Year:	1981
	Album:	UNAPPROVED ROAD
	Song:	The long road to perfection
Words & Music Colum Sands, Elm Grove Music Colum Sands: vocals, guitar, fiddle, double bass, euphonella viol, stone chisel Ben Sands: piano, backing vocals Anne Sands: backing vocals
In days of stone, the cavemen, Ate raw meat without sauce on, 'Til a genius foud a flint stone, And fire was soon the fashion, For heating and cooking, and even rebuking, People you couldn't rely on. Chorus: On the long road to perfection, We've never lost direction, We find bigger and better and amazingly faster, Ways to live and die. But man can't be retarded, And stone was soon discarded, For as soon as metal was on the way, We knew that metal was here to stay A sword of steel soon cuts up bones, So why waste energy throwing stones? Chorus The day of the savages drifted by, Town and cities leaped to the sky, We built factories over the land, Machines saved muscles though they claimed some hands... And if at times our health diclined, Production was faster so we didn't realy mind. Chorus Communication by road and rail, Radio and air outdated the sail Let's be faster the inventors cried, But between ourselves communication died, And the gadgets we made with all our skill Included little gadgets that would kill, kill, kill... Chorus On the road to perfection we've reached the stage Of nuclear power the atomic age We've reached the moon and next is Mars And we've found a way to end all wars, But for every forward step we make, We always seem to take two back... Chorus