| Multi-million dollar | |
| Exploration into space | |
| While in the name of progress | |
| This planet's laid to waste | |
| Nation takes on nation | |
| And is stepping up the pace | |
| And someone's got his finger | |
| On the button. | |
| [Chorus:] | |
| Forget the cost | |
| We've got to choose | |
| We're running in a race | |
| That we can only lose. | |
| Rich is rich and poor is poor | |
| And never the twain shall meet | |
| East is east and west is west | |
| And only one shall eat | |
| The microchip has come of age | |
| And man is obsolete | |
| And someone's got his finger | |
| On the button. | |
| [Chorus] | |