Love, Me Normally

In lipstick on the mirror

Are the lyrics to my obituary

In iambic pentameter, followed parameter

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 I couldn't be, yeah

C'mon, c'mon, 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 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, 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 I couldn't be, yeah

C'mon, c'mon, 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 hep cats tonight

I want you to look to your left, look to your right

Your 12 o'clock, three o'clock, six o'clock, nine o'clock, rock around the clock tonight

And I want you to find those points of no return, those singularities

Those burning rings of fire in the beautiful pupils of the beautiful eyes of the beautiful