The Trouble with Normal
The Trouble With Normal
Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage.
Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage.
Suddenly its 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 3rd world trying to keep it on its knees.
Their single crop starvation plan puts sugar in your tea.
And the local 3rd worlds kept on reservations you dont
see.
Itll 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 dont meet its easier to justify the mean.
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
Bruce Cockburn
30/06/81
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