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"
I stood under ohio's skies
I could see the open fields for miles
I thought "what the hell am I doing back here again?"
But now I'm trying to reassemble the things I kept and
The pictures fade but I hope to resurrect
The things that kept me sane back then
In the backyard playing on the swingset
Dark green shoes off you can get your feet wet
Mom and dad sat quiet in the sunroom
Sundown, big moon, big sky.
Now I just want to live a normal life
Get a fast car and a pretty wife
We could have children of our own
Settle down here until they're grown
We could buy a house out on the beach
And just die there, out of reach
Do you want to live
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life with me
Live
A normal life with me
For years I cursed these dead end streets
No where to go, no one to meet
We only talked about the crazy woman down the road
But everything makes much more sense now
Someday I'll have my own house
I'll make enough to make it easier to pay the phone bill
In the backyard playing on the swingset
Dark green shoes off you can get your feet wet
My wife and I will sit quiet in the sunroom
Sundown, big moon, big sky.
I just want to live a normal life
Get a fast car and a pretty wife
We could have children of our own
Settle down here until they're grown
We could buy a house out on the beach
And just die there, out of reach
Do you want to live
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life
I'll watch the kids until you get home
4:58 and you're on the phone
Coming back from work on Friday
Wide-awake in the american dream
I'll make the bed, you feed the cat
Could it really be as simple as that? (yeah)
Do you want to live
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life with me
Do you want to live a normal life with me
Now I just want to live a normal life
Get a fast car and a pretty wife
We could have children of our own
Settle down here until they're grown
I just want to live a normal life
Get a fast car and a pretty wife
We could have children of our own
Settle down here until they're grown
We could buy a house out on the beach
And just die there, out of reach
Do you want to live
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life
Do you want to live
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life with me?
I could see the open fields for miles
I thought "what the hell am I doing back here again?"
But now I'm trying to reassemble the things I kept and
The pictures fade but I hope to resurrect
The things that kept me sane back then
In the backyard playing on the swingset
Dark green shoes off you can get your feet wet
Mom and dad sat quiet in the sunroom
Sundown, big moon, big sky.
Now I just want to live a normal life
Get a fast car and a pretty wife
We could have children of our own
Settle down here until they're grown
We could buy a house out on the beach
And just die there, out of reach
Do you want to live
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life with me
Live
A normal life with me
For years I cursed these dead end streets
No where to go, no one to meet
We only talked about the crazy woman down the road
But everything makes much more sense now
Someday I'll have my own house
I'll make enough to make it easier to pay the phone bill
In the backyard playing on the swingset
Dark green shoes off you can get your feet wet
My wife and I will sit quiet in the sunroom
Sundown, big moon, big sky.
I just want to live a normal life
Get a fast car and a pretty wife
We could have children of our own
Settle down here until they're grown
We could buy a house out on the beach
And just die there, out of reach
Do you want to live
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life
I'll watch the kids until you get home
4:58 and you're on the phone
Coming back from work on Friday
Wide-awake in the american dream
I'll make the bed, you feed the cat
Could it really be as simple as that? (yeah)
Do you want to live
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life with me
Do you want to live a normal life with me
Now I just want to live a normal life
Get a fast car and a pretty wife
We could have children of our own
Settle down here until they're grown
I just want to live a normal life
Get a fast car and a pretty wife
We could have children of our own
Settle down here until they're grown
We could buy a house out on the beach
And just die there, out of reach
Do you want to live
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life
Do you want to live
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life
Do you want to live
Do you want to live a normal life with me?
Lyrics submitted by mAkEaWiSh*
Normal Life Lyrics as written by Joseph A. Hedges
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This song is fucking great, can i download it or not? Some body IM me.
this song rocks, it's the perfect song, i think if it got enough airplay, it can throw of those non-alternative poppy stuff off the #1 spot
This song is great. I saw one of their acoustic showings and they were great. I'm suprised this song has not been on the radio at all. This is better then most of the songs out there and seems radio friendly. The meaning of it to me it is about just settling down and living a normal life.
Los, you can download their music, they really don't care, cause they download music too.
I've seen JFK about 6 times now or so, and they are nothing but nice after every show, they are always talking to their fans and signing autographs on anything you toss out there for them and drinking beers with everyone.
Just an example, it was my buddies brothers girlfirends birthday and she is their biggest fan but she was in another state and couldnt make it to the show, so the boys in the band all got on the phone with her and wished her a happy birthday and they signed my friends ticket stub and he gave it to her for her birthday.
They are just genuinely nice guys and I really hope they make it big (well, bigger then they are right now)
P.S. T (the bassist) is awesome, anytime any of you see him at a show, buy the man a shot, cause he's a really cool guy.
Hey OSU. I completely agree with you that T is awesome, but the rest of them are too!!! I have been watching them play for about 4 years now, and I remember I about wrecked my car when I first heard Normal Life on the radio on a Cincinnati station. I wait for the day to see these guys on MTV!!!!!!
i love the simplicty of this song. its so simple, yet elegant. asking for simply a perfect little life. makes me want one. [[laughs]]
is there an old man singing it?
hellooooo?
PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I was in 7th grade I was referred to July for Kings by my friend Mikey, who knows Joe Hedges.
That was about 7 years ago now, and Normal Life is still my most played song.
This song is the reason I even bothered to make an account here.