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.      Fashionable fascism dominates the scene   When the 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. (x4)