At night they go out and paint the town  a doorway, a stairway, a hall  in the heart of the city when there's no body else around  Dream writes dream on a big blank wall  and Progress has got his face in a magazine  and Stress has got a bucket of blue  when the cops come,   man they're gonna split the scene  they inline down the alley away from view    and Dream dreams of the future  and Progress dreams of clean  and Stress only dreams about stress  all over everything  and who would sing about a couple of vandals  Progress and Stress and Dream  dream    Stress has got a kind of brush says it's japanese  brags that he can tag about the size of a bus  and Progress has got a pen in a pocket  leaves a neat mark on a call-box  and when it's dawn Progress says 'I've got to get some sleep'  mmm-mmm-mmm says 'I never get enough  I'm in school I want to be an architect'  Stress says 'Man, you're just like the rest of us'    and Dream dreams of the future  and Progress dreams of clean  and Stress only dreams about stress  all over everything  and who would sing about a couple of vandals  Progress and Stress and Dream  dream    Dream goes home and she dreams a dream  in color, red, yellow and blue  on the biggest blank wall that you've ever seen  up there with the billboards  just like the big boys    and Dream dreams of the future  and Progress dreams of clean  and Stress only dreams about stress  all over everything  and who would sing about a couple of vandals  Progress and Stress and Dream  dream