Perestroika

“Who are you going to call for; what do you have to say?” ~ R.E.M., “Good Advices” from the album Fables of the Reconstruction (1985) It’s really for the best you know Those apples weren’t so yummy We’ll find our way again to grow Our own to feed our tummy And if they cost a few cents more That’s hardly cause to panic They’ll be clean like they were before No pesticides – organic Some influences come across That don’t fit and for certain No part of that can be a loss This is no iron curtain Which won’t be coming back at all The border won’t be shutting Our local businesses this fall Will thrive with no job-cutting With all that said he bids adieu No more are we connected We know his words as he knows too May have been intercepted No way have we to more than guess Just what he’s really thinking No way he’d safely dare confess Reform leaves his heart sinking ~ Thanks Always Returns