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Verse 1:
E G#
In lipstick on the mirror
C#m A
Are the lyrics to my obituary
E G#
In iambic pentameter, followed parameter
C#m A
Crossing?my eyes, dot?my T's
E G#
I was delivered holding scissors
C#m A
I live deliberately, I'm a quitter
C#m
And a winner anyway
F#m B
Cause I never agreed to participate in this game
A B
Won't follow my dreams
E C#m
No, they've all got me waking up screaming
F#m
I can't let them go for me
B C
After all there is no (I) in team
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 G#
If I could live in third person
C#m
Well I don't think life would be
A
Much worse than it is
E
In the current tense, presently
G#
This sentence ending with
C#m A
Question marks or dot dot dot
E G#
Is it courageous or escapist
C#m A
To leave the quarantine when you're contagious?
F#m
It may just be a cold
B
And besides I don't wanna get old yeah
A B
I drank myself to death
E C#m
To be the afterlife of the party
F#m
When the afterparty came
B C
I was rolling in my grave
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:
E
Now this is the part of the song
G#
Where I like to talk to my audience
C#m
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
G#
Look to your right
Bridge:
A B
I was nothing before
E C#m
So I couldn't have asked to be born
A B
I'll be nothing again
E C#m
So what am I between now and then?
A B
Is there nothing to fear?
G# C#m
Cause shit's getting weird!
F#m
So to God who made this man
B C
You better have one hell of a plan!