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