Love, Me Normally - Live at Hawthorne Theatre, Portland, OR

In lipstick on the mirror
Are the lyrics to my obituary
In iambic pentameter, followed perimeter
Cross my eyes, dot my T's
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
No, they've 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, yes, 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 guess that's the least that I owe ya
To be normal in a way that I could never be
Yeah
So, 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
This sentence ending 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 wanna get old, yeah
I drank to death to be the after-life of the party
When the after-party came
I was rolling in my grave

And I'd rather be normal, yes, 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 guess that's the least that I owe ya
To be normal in way that I could never 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'd like to tell 'em
There's something I want from you hep cats, tonight
I want you to look to your left look to your right
Wow, you guys are all over the place
Your 12 o'clock, your 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, your 9 o'clock
Your rock around the clock, tonight
I want you to find those points of no return
Those singularities, those event horizons
Those beautiful rings of fire in the beautiful eyes of the beautiful
Boy, girl, neither, both or in-between
That you brought with you, tonight
And I want you to tell them how you really fell
I want you to tell them that you love the way
That they so seamlessly
And so like-a-dreamfully
And so beautifully
And so dutifully
Jam that square peg in the round hole in their heart!
I want you to tell them that you love the way
That they don't stick out like sore middle fingers
That they claw their way up the side of the bell-curve
Stick their flag in the peek
And slide their way back down
I want you to tell them that you love the way
That they're not maladaptive, not malcontent
Not malignant or maleficent
Rather that you love them
I want you to tell 'em
That you 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!

I'd rather be normal, yes, 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 guess that's the least that I owe ya!
To be normal in way that I could never be
Oh, yeah!
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
Oh-oh-oh, yeah-yeah
Woah, yeah

Come on, come on, and love me
Normally