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Version 1[Intro] E Ab Dbm Am E B A E [Verse 1] E Ab In lipstick on the mirror, Dbm A are the lyrics to my obituary E Ab In iambic pentameter, followed parameter, Dbm A crossing my eyes, dot my T's E Ab I was delivered holding scissors, Dbm A I live deliberately, I’m a quitter Dbm And a winner anyway, Gbm B cause I never agreed to participate in this game. A B Won't follow my dreams, E Dbm no, they’ve all got me waking up screaming Gbm I can’t let them go for me, B C after all there is no “I” in team [Chorus] 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 Ab If I could live in third person, Dbm well I don’t think life would be A much worse than it is E In the current tense, presently, Ab this sentence ending with Dbm A question marks or dot dot dot… E Ab Is it courageous or escapist Dbm A to leave the quarantine when you’re contagious? Gbm It may just be a cold, B and besides I don’t wanna get old yeah A B I drank myself to death E Dbm to be the afterlife of the party Gbm When the afterparty came, B C I was rolling in my grave [Chorus] 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 1] E Now this is the part of the song Ab where I like to talk to my audience Dbm 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, Ab look to your right, your 12 o'clock, three o'clock, six o'clock, Dbm A nine o'clock, rock around the clock tonight E And I want you to find those points of no return, Ab those singularities, those burning rings of fire Dbm in the beautiful pupils and the beautiful eyes A of the beautiful boy, girl, neither, both, E or in-between that you brought with you tonight. Ab And I want you to tell 'em how you really feel. Dbm A I want you to love the way they so seamlessly, E like a dream for me, Ab so beautifully, oh so dutifully Dbm jam that square peg in the A round hole in their hearts! E I want you to tell 'em that you love the way Ab Dbm that they don't stick out like sore middle fingers A That they crawl their way up the side of the bell curve, E stick their flag in the peak, Ab and slide their way back down! Dbm I want you to tell them that you love the way A that they're not maladaptive, not malcontent, E not malignant or maleficent, Ab but rather that you love them Dbm exactly the way that everybody else is! [Bridge 2] E Ab I was nothing before Dbm A so I couldn’t have asked to be born. E Ab I'll be nothing again, Dbm A so what am I between now and then? E Ab Is there nothing to fear? Dbm A Cause shit's getting weird! Gbm So to God who made this man, B C you better have one hell of a plan! [Chorus] 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, no, 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 that I could never be, yeah Bb C C’mon, c’mon, yeah, I said c’mon, yeah. Bb Dm C’mon, c’mon, yeah, I said c’mon, yeah! Bb C F C’mon, c’mon, and love me normally! A Dm Bbm Woah, yeah yeah, woah yeah Bb C C’mon, c’mon, and love me... N.C ...normally. F A Dm Bbm F C Bb Bb Bb Bb F