Bruce Springsteen's on the radio
And it's nineteen -eighty-four
There's and actor in the White House
A man you can't ignore
Over in the Soviet Union
The country comes alive
To the noise of a new leader
And it's nineteen-eight-five
He's charismatic and he's charming
And new words will now be spoken
In the East they refer to glasnost
perestroika(and he's not joking)
The name of the man is Mikhail
He's applauded in the West
But over in the new Russia
His impact is suppressed
But you and I had just met then
Now many years ago
Thankfully we're still together
But what was the world to know
Five years from that last date
And the actor's not around
But Mikhail will his influence
Has brought a great wall down
The world we knew so long ago
Has changed,some say for worse
But describes the events of yesteryear
When leaders would converse
There's a new man in the White House now
An actor, who can tell ?
In Russia there's another voice
Who says that all is well
Thinking back now over thirty years
When you were just twenty five
The actor and Mikhail together
Helped this old world survive.