In lipstick
on the mirror
are the lyrics
to my obituary
In iambic pentameter
followed parameter
crossing 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
'cause they 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
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
in 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 afterparty 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
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 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 love
the way they so seamlessly
like a dream fully
so beautifully
oh so dutifully
jam that square peg
in the round
hole in their hearts
I want you to tell 'em
that you love the way
that they don't stick out
like sore middle fingers
That they crawl
their way up
the side of
the bell curve
stick their flag
in the peak and slide
their way back down
I want
to tell them
that you love the way
that they're not
maladaptive
not malcontent
not malignant
or maleficent
but rather that
you love them
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 a way
I could never be
C'mon c'mon yeah
I said c'mon yeah
C'mon c'mon yeah
I said c'mon yeah
C'mon c'mon
and love me normally
Oh oh
Yeah
C'mon c'mon
and love me normally
