The Trouble With Normal-Bruce Cockburn

[ti:The Trouble With Normal] [ar:Bruce Cockburn] [al:Anything Anytime Anywhere] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Trouble With Normal - Bruce Cockburn [00:15.93]Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage [00:19.08]Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage [00:22.76] [00:23.44]Suddenly it's repression moratorium on rights [00:26.36] [00:27.08]What did they think the politics of panic would invite [00:30.24] [00:32.09]Person in the street shrugs [00:33.54]Security comes first [00:34.67] [00:35.74]But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse [00:39.02] [00:43.49]But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse [00:46.50] [00:58.78]Callous men in business costume speak computerize [01:02.09]Play pinball with the third world trying to keep it on its knees [01:05.82]Their single crop starvation plans put sugar in your tea [01:08.96] [01:09.63]And the local third world's kept on reservations you don't see [01:13.01] [01:14.63]It'll all go back to normal if we put our nation first [01:17.62] [01:18.41]But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse [01:21.66] [01:26.21]But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse [01:29.36] [01:52.85]Fashionable fascism dominates the scene [01:56.06]When ends don't meet it's easier to justify the means [01:59.49] [02:00.32]Tenants get the dregs and landlords get the cream [02:03.59]As the grinding devolution of the democratic dream [02:06.95] [02:08.48]Brings us men in gas masks dancing while the shells burst [02:11.69] [02:12.71]The trouble with normal is it always gets worse [02:15.78] [02:20.37]The trouble with normal is it always gets worse [02:23.51] [02:27.98]The trouble with normal is it always gets worse [02:31.07] [02:35.53]The trouble with normal is it always gets worse