Chords with lyrics
Key: F
Intro:
F A Dm Bbm
G|-0--------|-0--------|-0--------|-1--------|
C|-1--------|-0--------|-1--------|-1--------|
E|-0------0-|-1------1-|-2------2-|-1------1-|
A|-2-2------|-2-2------|-2-2------|-3-3------|
F C F
G|-0--------|-3--------|-0--------|----------|
C|-1--------|-0--------|-1--------|----------|
E|-0------0-|-0--------|-0--------|----------|
A|-2-2------|-0------2-|-2--------|----------|
Verse 1:
F A
In the lipstick on the mirror
Dm Bbm
Are the lyrics to my obituary
F A
In iambic pentameter, follow parameters
Dm Bbm
Crossing my eyes, dot my t's
F A
I was delivered holding scissors
Dm Bbm
I live deliberately, I’m a quitter
Dm
And a winner anyway
Gm C
Cause I never agreed to participate in this game
Bb C F C Dm
Won't follow my dreams cause they all got me waking up screaming
Gm
I can’t let them go for me
C C#
After all, there's no I in team
Chorus:
F# A#
And I'd rather be normal. Yes, so normal
D#m B
I suggest that we keep this informal
F# A# D#m B
‘Cause a normal human being wouldn't need
F# A#
To pretend to be normal, to be normal
D#m B
Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya!
F# D#m G#m C#
To be normal in a way I couldn’t be, yeah yeah
B C# F# A# D#m Bm
C’mon, c’mon, and love me normally
Verse 2:
F A Dm Bb
If I could live in third person, well I don’t think life would be much worse than it is
F A Dm N.C.
In the current tense, presently, this sentence ending in question marks or dot dot dot
F A Dm Bb
Is it courageous or escapist to leave the quarantine when you’re contagious?
Dm
It may just be a cold
Gm C
And besides I don’t wanna get old yeah
Bb C F C Dm
I drank myself to death to be the afterlife of the party
Gm C C#
When the afterparty came
I was rolling in my grave
Chorus:
F# A#
And I'd rather be normal. Yes, so normal
D#m B
I suggest that we keep this informal
F# A# D#m B
‘Cause a normal human being wouldn't need
F# A#
To pretend to be normal, to be normal
D#m B
Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya!
F# D#m G#m C#
To be normal in a way I couldn’t be, yeah yeah
B C# F# A# D#m Bm
C’mon, c’mon, and love me normally
Spoken:
(repeat chord progression until verse is over)
F A Dm Bb
Now this is the part of the song where I talk to my audience.
F A Dm Bb
I like to tell 'em there's something I want from you hep cats tonight.
F A Dm Bb
I want you to look to your left, look to your right, your 12 o'clock, three o'clock, six o'clock
F A Dm Bb
nine o'clock, rock around the clock tonight.
F A Dm Bb
And I want you to find those points of no return, those singularities, those event horizons,
(strum slightly more intense)
F A Dm Bb
those burning rings of fire in the beautiful pupils and the beautiful eyes of the beautiful boy, girl
F A Dm Bb
neither, both, or in-between that you brought with you tonight.
F A Dm Bb
And I want you to tell 'em how you really feel.
F A Dm Bb
I want you to love the way they so seamlessly, like a dream for me,
(strum more intense)
F A Dm Bb N.C
so beautifully, oh so dutifully, jam that square peg in the round hole in their hearts!
{strum intensely :'))
F A Dm Bb
I want you to tell 'em that you love the way that they don't stick out like sore middle fingers.
F A Dm Bb
That they crawl their way up the side of the bell curve, stick their flag in the peak
F A Dm Bb
and slide their way back down. I want you to tell them that you love the way that they're not maladaptive
F A Dm Bb
not malcontent, not malignant or maleficent
F A Dm Bb N.C
but rather that you love them exactly the way that everybody else is!
Pre-Chorus:
Bb C
I was nothing before so
F C Dm
I couldn’t have asked to be born
Bb C F C Dm
I'll be nothing again, so what am I between now and then?
Bb C
Is there nothing to fear
F C Dm
Cause shit's getting weird
Gm
So to God who made this man
C C#
You better have one hell of a plan
Chorus:
F# A#
And I'd rather be normal. Yes, so normal
D#m B
I suggest that we keep this informal
F# A# D#m B
‘Cause a normal human being wouldn't need
F# A#
To pretend to be normal, to be normal
D#m B
Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya!
F# D#m G#m C#
To be normal in a way I couldn’t be, yeah yeah
B C#
C'mon c'mon yeah
I said come on yeah
B C#
C'mon c'mon yeah
I said come on yeah
B C# F# A# D#m Bm F#
C’mon, c’mon, and love me normally
