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
 
Interlude: 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

Interlude: 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 xxxx'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...
nc 
...normally.

Outro:
   F  A  Dm  Bbm
   F  C
   Bb  Bb  Bb  Bb
   F
 Dit arrangement is de eigen interpretatie van de inzender, gedeeld voor privéstudie, educatie en niet-commercieel gebruik. Het onderliggende nummer, de songtekst en de muziek blijven eigendom van hun rechthebbenden. Om verwijdering aan te vragen, zie Juridische verklaring.