Bruce Cockburn The Trouble With Normal Lyrics

The Trouble With Normal Lyrics

Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage Planet lurches to the
right as ideologies engage Suddenly it's repression, moratorium on rights What
did they think the politics of panic would invite? Person in the street shrugs
-- "Security comes first" But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse




Callous men in business costume speak computerese Play pinball
with the Third World trying to keep it on its knees Their single crop
starvation plans put sugar in your tea And the local Third World's kept on
reservations you don't see "It'll all go back to normal if we put our nation
first" But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse 



Fashionable fascism dominates the scene When ends don't meet it's easier to
justify the means Tenants get the dregs and landlords get the cream As the
grinding devolution of the democratic dream Brings us men in gas masks dancing
while the shells burst The trouble with normal is it always gets worse