Bruce Cockburn - The Trouble With Normal lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - 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
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 it's 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
The trouble with normal is
It always gets worse
Fashionable fascism dominates the scene
When the ends don't meet it's
Easier to justify the means
Tenants get the dregs and the
Landlords get the cream
As the grinding devolution of
The democratic dream
Brings us men in gas masks
Dancing while the shells burst
But the trouble with normal is
It always gets worse
The trouble with normal is
It always gets worse
The trouble with normal is
It always gets worse
The trouble with normal is
It always gets worse
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
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 it's 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
The trouble with normal is
It always gets worse
Fashionable fascism dominates the scene
When the ends don't meet it's
Easier to justify the means
Tenants get the dregs and the
Landlords get the cream
As the grinding devolution of
The democratic dream
Brings us men in gas masks
Dancing while the shells burst
But the trouble with normal is
It always gets worse
The trouble with normal is
It always gets worse
The trouble with normal is
It always gets worse
The trouble with normal is
It always gets worse