Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Bruce Cockburn
Guitar
Bob Disalle
Drums
Chi Sharpe
Percussion
Dennis Pendrith
Bass
Dick Smith
Percussion
Fergus Jemison Marsh
Bass
Hugh Marsh
Violin
Jonathan Goldsmith
Keyboards
Miche Pouliot
Drums
Rob Yale
Programming
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Bruce Cockburn
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Eugene Martynec
Producer
Gary Mitchell Gray
Engineer
Jonathan Goldsmith
Producer
Kerry Crawford
Producer
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
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
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
Writer(s): Bruce Cockburn
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