Love, Me Normally - Will Wood

[00:14.34]In lipstick on the mirror are the lyrics to my obituary
[00:20.67]In iambic pentameter, followed parameter, cross my eyes, dot my T's
[00:26.78]I was delivered holding scissors, I live deliberately, I’m a quitter
[00:33.51]And a winner anyway, cause I never agreed to participate in this game
[00:40.71]Won't follow my dreams, 'cause they all got me waking up screaming
[00:46.46]I can’t let them go for me, after all, there is no “I” in team
[00:52.21]And I'd rather be normal, yes, so normal
[00:55.73]I suggest that we keep this informal
[00:58.96]'Cause a normal human being wouldn't need
[01:04.54]To pretend to be normal, to be normal
[01:08.42]Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya
[01:11.73]To be normal in a way I couldn’t be
[01:18.72]C’mon, c’mon, and love me normally
[01:34.66]If I could live in third person, well, I don’t think life would be much worse than it is
[01:40.74]In the current tense, presently, this sentence ending in question marks or dot, dot, dot
[01:46.72]Is it courageous or escapist to leave the quarantine when you’re contagious?
[01:53.52]It may just be a cold, and besides I don’t wanna get old, yeah
[02:00.53]I drank myself to death to be the afterlife of the party
[02:06.29]When the afterparty came, I was rolling in my grave
[02:12.22]And I'd rather be normal, yes, so normal
[02:15.80]I suggest that we keep this informal
[02:18.88]'Cause a normal human being wouldn't need
[02:24.60]To pretend to be normal, to be normal
[02:28.44]Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya
[02:31.74]To be normal in a way I couldn’t be
[02:38.61]C’mon, c’mon, and love me normally
[02:54.64]Now this is the part of the song where I like to talk to my audience
[02:57.96]I like to tell 'em there's something I want from you hep cats tonight
[03:01.16]I want you to look to your left, look to your right, your 12 o'clock,
[03:03.49]Three o'clock, six o'clock, nine o'clock, rock around the clock tonight
[03:06.26]And I want you to find those points of no return, those singularities,
[03:08.45]Those burning rings of fire in the beautiful pupils and
[03:10.89]The beautiful eyes of the beautiful boy, girl, neither, both, or in-between
[03:13.46]That you brought with you tonight, and I want you to tell 'em how you really feel
[03:17.04]I want you to love the way they so seamlessly, like a dream for me, so beautifully,
[03:22.54]Oh-so-dutifully jam that square peg in the round hole in their hearts
[03:26.70]I want you to tell 'em that you love the way that they don't stick out like sore middle fingers
[03:30.47]That they crawl their way up the side of the bell curve, stick their flag in the peak,
[03:34.39]And slide their way back down
[03:36.11]I want you to tell them that you love the way that they're not maladaptive,
[03:38.69]Not malcontent, not malignant or maleficent,
[03:41.41]But rather that you love them exactly the way that everybody else is
[03:46.26]I was nothing before, so I couldn’t have asked to be born
[03:52.64]I'll be nothing again, so what am I between now and then?
[03:58.83]Is there nothing to fear? Cause shit's getting weird
[04:04.73]So to God who made this man, you better have one hell of a plan
[04:10.60]And I'd rather be normal, yes, so normal
[04:14.28]I suggest that we keep this informal
[04:17.27]'Cause a normal human being wouldn't need, no
[04:23.32]To pretend to be normal, to be normal
[04:26.79]Well, I guess that's the least that I owe ya
[04:30.07]To be normal in a way I could never be
[04:36.96]C’mon, c’mon, yeah, I said c’mon, yeah
[04:40.22]C’mon, c’mon, yeah, I said c’mon, yeah
[04:43.55]C’mon, c’mon, and love me normally
[04:53.27]C'mon, c'mon and love me normally