Love Me Normally Songtext
von Will Wood and the Tapeworms

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 free
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 bet 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 bet 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 to talk to my audience
I like to tell ′em there's something I want from you guys tonight
I want you to look to your left, look to your right
Your 12 o′clock, three o'clock, six o′clock, uh rock-clock around
Walk around the clock fuckin' tonight
I want you to find, in that dark space, or that green space, that purple space
Whatever the fuck Jimmy's doing right now
Oh orange, okay
I want you to find those event horizons, those black holes
Those points of no return
Those deep, deep wells of inky blackness in the beautiful pupils
Of the beautiful iris of the beautiful boy, girl, neither, both, or in-between
That you brought with you tonight
And I want you to tell ′em how you really feel
I want you to tell ′em that you love the way, you just love the way
They so seamlessly, like a dreamfully
Blend into their goddamn surroundings like some kind of groovy ass chameleon
You know the fuck I'm talking about
I want you to tell them you love the way that they don′t stick out
Like the sore goddamn thumb that you know that they would if they didn't hear
The rules and regulations of the society that raised them, bred them to follow
I want you to tell them that you love the way they′re not maladaptive
Not malcontent, not malignant or maleficent
I want you to tell 'em that you love ′em, you really love 'em
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 shit's getting weird
So to god, who made this man
You better have one hell of a plan

′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 bet 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, woah-yeah, whoa, ouh-yeah, whoa-whoa
Come on, come on and love me normally