This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Normal (tell me what you think is)
Normal (is there more than one way to be)
Normal (If I do what you say am I)
Normal
Well I'm just a normal guy in a normal world
I live a normal life. I got a normal girl
I drive to normal places in my normal car
I even wish upon the normal stars
But people say it isn't normal
If I want to pierce my nose
Or if I let a blind man design my clothes
Or if I pick the petals leave the thorns upon my rose
Or if I just want to paint my toes
People say it's not
Normal (tell me what you think is)
Normal (is there more than one way to be)
Normal (I really think I'm okay and that´s)
Normal
My momma say´s it isn't normal if I want to sleep all day
If I don´t get a normal job, I´ll throw my life away
She says I should go to school to get my B.A.
But me, I want to be a DJ
My friends say it isn't normal if I don´t want to touch that stuff
But I don´t need to follow no one, I´m already cool enough
You say I gotta be name brand, but I´m gonna call your bluff
And if you don´t like it that´s tough.
Normal (tell me what you think is)
Normal (is there more than one way to be)
Normal (I really think I'm okay and that´s)
Normal
Once upon a time there was a man who had a wife
A couple kids, a cat, a dog. He thought he had a perfect life
That's not for me
Because I want to be
I want to be a painter
And I want to be an actor and a sculptor
Or a clown
Maybe I want to drive a tractor
Why can't you see, that's normal to me
To me, that's normal
So what-if I don't like the food you eat
So what if you don't like to dance to my beat
So what if you're expensive and you think I´m cheap
So what does that make me incomplete?
So what if I don't want to come my hair
So what. Judging me, that's really unfair
So what, I only listen to the man up there
And I bet you he thinks I'm normal
I am my own man, so I do what I will
Every individual has their own skill
We all set goals that we want to fulfill
Whether a butcher, a baker, a computer maker
It's your life so do what you want to do
You got one life to live, you don´t have two
To yourself to yourself, you gotta be true
And that's gonna make you normal
Normal (tell me what you think is)
Normal (is there more than one way to be)
Normal (I really think I'm okay and that's)
Normal
Don't want to do what you say,
I want to do what I do
And that's normal
Don't have to do what you say, that's normal
I want to do what I do Everybody's normal
I'm normal, that's normal, that's normal
Normal (is there more than one way to be)
Normal (If I do what you say am I)
Normal
Well I'm just a normal guy in a normal world
I live a normal life. I got a normal girl
I drive to normal places in my normal car
I even wish upon the normal stars
But people say it isn't normal
If I want to pierce my nose
Or if I let a blind man design my clothes
Or if I pick the petals leave the thorns upon my rose
Or if I just want to paint my toes
People say it's not
Normal (tell me what you think is)
Normal (is there more than one way to be)
Normal (I really think I'm okay and that´s)
Normal
My momma say´s it isn't normal if I want to sleep all day
If I don´t get a normal job, I´ll throw my life away
She says I should go to school to get my B.A.
But me, I want to be a DJ
My friends say it isn't normal if I don´t want to touch that stuff
But I don´t need to follow no one, I´m already cool enough
You say I gotta be name brand, but I´m gonna call your bluff
And if you don´t like it that´s tough.
Normal (tell me what you think is)
Normal (is there more than one way to be)
Normal (I really think I'm okay and that´s)
Normal
Once upon a time there was a man who had a wife
A couple kids, a cat, a dog. He thought he had a perfect life
That's not for me
Because I want to be
I want to be a painter
And I want to be an actor and a sculptor
Or a clown
Maybe I want to drive a tractor
Why can't you see, that's normal to me
To me, that's normal
So what-if I don't like the food you eat
So what if you don't like to dance to my beat
So what if you're expensive and you think I´m cheap
So what does that make me incomplete?
So what if I don't want to come my hair
So what. Judging me, that's really unfair
So what, I only listen to the man up there
And I bet you he thinks I'm normal
I am my own man, so I do what I will
Every individual has their own skill
We all set goals that we want to fulfill
Whether a butcher, a baker, a computer maker
It's your life so do what you want to do
You got one life to live, you don´t have two
To yourself to yourself, you gotta be true
And that's gonna make you normal
Normal (tell me what you think is)
Normal (is there more than one way to be)
Normal (I really think I'm okay and that's)
Normal
Don't want to do what you say,
I want to do what I do
And that's normal
Don't have to do what you say, that's normal
I want to do what I do Everybody's normal
I'm normal, that's normal, that's normal
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Normal Lyrics as written by Steve Greenberg Haldane Wayne Browne
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