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Version 1
[Intro]
E Ab Dbm Am
E B A E
[Verse 1]
E Ab
In lipstick on the mirror,
Dbm A
are the lyrics to my obituary
E Ab
In iambic pentameter, followed parameter,
Dbm A
crossing my eyes, dot my T's
E Ab
I was delivered holding scissors,
Dbm A
I live deliberately, I’m a quitter
Dbm
And a winner anyway,
Gbm B
cause I never agreed to participate in this game.
A B
Won't follow my dreams,
E Dbm
no, they’ve all got me waking up screaming
Gbm
I can’t let them go for me,
B C
after all there is no “I” in team
[Chorus]
F A
And I'd rather be normal. Yes, so normal
Dm Bb
I suggest that we keep this informal
F A Dm Bb
‘Cause a normal human being wouldn't need
F A
To pretend to be normal, to be normal
Dm Bb
Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya!
F Dm Gm C
To be normal in a way I couldn’t be, yeah yeah
Bb C F A Dm Bbm
C’mon, c’mon, and love me normally
F C Bb F Db
[Verse 2]
E Ab
If I could live in third person,
Dbm
well I don’t think life would be
A
much worse than it is
E
In the current tense, presently,
Ab
this sentence ending with
Dbm A
question marks or dot dot dot…
E Ab
Is it courageous or escapist
Dbm A
to leave the quarantine when you’re contagious?
Gbm
It may just be a cold,
B
and besides I don’t wanna get old yeah
A B
I drank myself to death
E Dbm
to be the afterlife of the party
Gbm
When the afterparty came,
B C
I was rolling in my grave
[Chorus]
F A
And I'd rather be normal. Yes, so normal
Dm Bb
I suggest that we keep this informal
F A Dm Bb
‘Cause a normal human being wouldn't need
F A
To pretend to be normal, to be normal
Dm Bb
Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya!
F Dm Gm C
To be normal in a way I couldn’t be, yeah yeah
Bb C F A Dm Bbm
C’mon, c’mon, and love me normally
F C Bb F Db
[Bridge 1]
E
Now this is the part of the song
Ab
where I like to talk to my audience
Dbm
I like to tell 'em there's something I want
A
from you hep cats tonight.
E
I want you to look to your left,
Ab
look to your right,
your 12 o'clock, three o'clock, six o'clock,
Dbm A
nine o'clock, rock around the clock tonight
E
And I want you to find those points of no return,
Ab
those singularities, those burning rings of fire
Dbm
in the beautiful pupils and the beautiful eyes
A
of the beautiful boy, girl, neither, both,
E
or in-between that you brought with you tonight.
Ab
And I want you to tell 'em how you really feel.
Dbm A
I want you to love the way they so seamlessly,
E
like a dream for me,
Ab
so beautifully, oh so dutifully
Dbm
jam that square peg in the
A
round hole in their hearts!
E
I want you to tell 'em that you love the way
Ab Dbm
that they don't stick out like sore middle fingers
A
That they crawl their way up the side of the bell curve,
E
stick their flag in the peak,
Ab
and slide their way back down!
Dbm
I want you to tell them that you love the way
A
that they're not maladaptive,
not malcontent,
E
not malignant or maleficent,
Ab
but rather that you love them
Dbm
exactly the way that everybody else is!
[Bridge 2]
E Ab
I was nothing before
Dbm A
so I couldn’t have asked to be born.
E Ab
I'll be nothing again,
Dbm A
so what am I between now and then?
E Ab
Is there nothing to fear?
Dbm A
Cause shit's getting weird!
Gbm
So to God who made this man,
B C
you better have one hell of a plan!
[Chorus]
F A
And I'd rather be normal. Yes, so normal
Dm Bb
I suggest that we keep this informal
F A Dm Bb
Cause a normal human being wouldn't need, no,
F A
To pretend to be normal, to be normal
Dm Bb
Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya!
F Dm Gm C
To be normal in a way that I could never be, yeah
Bb C
C’mon, c’mon, yeah, I said c’mon, yeah.
Bb Dm
C’mon, c’mon, yeah, I said c’mon, yeah!
Bb C F
C’mon, c’mon, and love me normally!
A Dm Bbm
Woah, yeah yeah, woah yeah
Bb C
C’mon, c’mon, and love me...
N.C
...normally.
F A Dm Bbm
F C
Bb Bb Bb Bb
F