Love, Me Normally

In lipstick on the mirror are the lyrics to my obituary

In iambic pentameter, follow parameter

Crossing my is, dot my ts

I was delivered holding scissors

I live deliberately, I'm a quitter

And a winner, anyway

'Cause I never agreed to participate in this game

Won't follow my dreams 'cause they all got me waking up screaming

I can let them go from me

After all, there's no I in team

And I'd rather be normal, yeah, so normal

I suggest that we keep this informal

'Cause a normal human being wouldn't need

To pretend to be normal, to be normal

Well, I get that that's the least that I owe you

To be normal in a way I couldn't be, yeah

Come on, come on and love me normally

If I could live in third person

Well, I don't think life would be much worse than it is

In the current tense, presently, listen consenting

With question marks or dot dot dot

Is it courageous or escapist to leave

The quarantine when you're contagious?

It may just be a cold

And besides, I don't want to get old, yeah

I drank myself to death to be the afterlife of the party

When the after-party came, I was rolling in my grave!

And I'd rather be normal, yeah, so normal

I suggest that we keep this informal

'Cause a normal human being wouldn't need

To pretend to be normal, to be normal

Well, I get that that's the least that I owe you

To be normal in a way I couldn't be, yeah

Come on, come on and love me normally

Now this is the part of the song where I like talk to me audience

I like to tell them 'em there's something I want

From you hep cats tonight

I want you to look to your left, look to your right

Your 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock

9 o'clock, rock around the clock tonight

And I want you to find those points of no return

Those singularities, those burning rings of fire

In the beatiful pupils and the beautiful eyes

Of the beautiful boy, girl, neither, both

Or in-between that you brought with you tonight

And I want you to teel 'em how you really feel

I want you to love the way they so seamlessly

Like a dream for me, so beautifully, oh so dutifully

Jam that square peg in the round hole in their hearts!

I want you to tell 'em that you love the way

That they don't stick out like sore middle fingers

That they crawl their way up the side of the bell curve

Stick their flag in the peak

And slide their way back down!

I want you to tell them that you love the way

That they're no maladaptive, not malcontent

Not malignant or maleficent

But rather that you love them

Exactly the way that everybody else is

I was nothing before, so I couldn't have asked to be born

I'll be nothing again, so what am I between now and then?

Is there nothing to fear?

'Cause this shit's getting weird

So to God, who made this man

You better have one hell of a plan, oh

'Cause I'd rather be normal, yeah, so normal

I suggest that we keep this informal

'Cause a normal human being wouldn't need, no

To pretend to be normal, to be normal

Well, I get that that's the least that I owe you

To be normal in a way I couldn't be, yeah

So come on, come on, yeah, I said come on, yeah

Come on, come on, yeah, I said come on, yeah

Come on, come on and love me normally, woah, yeah, whoa yeah

Come on, come on and love me normally