The Trouble With Normal Lyrics - Rumours Of Glory - Bruce Cockburn

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 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 

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse 

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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 

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 

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