𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 — a collection of one - liners taken from will wood's 2020 album, the normal album. slightly edited for clarity. change pronouns as necessary.
tw. death, mental illness / ableism, suicide, drugs, gender dysphoria.
trick or treat, merry christmas.
the lights are on, but no one's home.
it takes a village to fake a whole culture.
home is where the heart is.
home is where the heart is, you're not homeless, but you're heartless.
i can tell that you know where paradise is.
a snowflake only matters in a blizzard.
why apologize for being blue and cold?
culture's not your friend.
well, lot, he had his lot in life, job his job, and i guess you too, will die.
the devil made me do it, but i also kind of wanted to.
forget bored stiff, i got rigor mortis.
meaning can be such a pretty thing to keep.
i got facts and i'm not afraid to use 'em.
if sick is defined by what's different, then pull the plug out and let me die.
who i am i choose through all the things i do.
well that was fun, goodbye.
have you ever died in a nightmare?
could you take a look at me?
if you were in my shoes, you'd walk the same damn miles i do.
with my head up in the clouds, i can see so much ground.
it doesn't take a killer to murder, it only takes a reason to kill.
the only ones in need of love are those who don't receive enough.
the only ones in need of love are those who don't receive enough, so evil ones should get a little more.
if the shoe fits would you walk that mile?
for some reason i find myself lost in what you think of me.
i wish i could be a girl.
i wish i could be a girl, and that way you'd wish i could be your girlfriend.
am i pretty enough to lie to?
i get dressed up in shadows one leg at a time.
i love how you're on my side when i cross that line.
say my name like a slur, but i've been called worse.
i am quantum physics, my witness brings me into existence.
am i pretty enough to love back?
am i pretty enough to fucking die?
my daughter's growing up.
i don't wanna be at all like me.
stranger things than death can happen.
everybody's in on everybody's business.
i know mistletoe when i see it.
could you tell me how i'm right for you?
if they could see the future back when times were simple, would they kiss your cheek or yank the bandage off?
if everybody's different, how could anybody match?
everybody's all up in my god damn business.
this isn't my first kiss.
it's better to be lost than loved, now, isn't it?
this isn't my first anything.
i know exactly how i should finish it.
what's so wrong about what's wrong with me?
i'm just trying to do what's right by you.
who'd want to be human anyway?
why'd you come into this world or come out that way?
well, not "haha" funny, but y'know, funny.
i doubt that you would even if you could change.
you think it makes you special, but it makes you strange.
the things that make you special are the things that make you strange.
who'd want to belong to anyone?
five more minutes please? you wouldn't believe the dream i just had.
if it was going to kill you, it would have by now.
there's no more looking back, it's looking up or looking down.
you think ideas spread because they're good? no, they spread because people like them.
i guess it's just something people do.
you've lost your mind and almost lost your life before, so you'll be fine.
it's no good looking back, so try to look forward now.
how many years have you been on that couch?
lately you've been focusing too much on yourself.
back in my day we didn't need no feel - good pills and no psychiatrists.
what's a symptom, what's a flaw, can it be both?
they discovered a cure for the symptom of being alive.
lately i've been worried that you're losing yourself.
don't you make me waste my breath.
you're not your thoughts.
won't follow my dreams, 'cause they all got me waking up screaming.
i suggest we keep this informal.
a normal human being wouldn't need to pretend to be normal.
i love you exactly the way that everybody else is.
i was nothing before, so i couldn't have asked to be born.
you better have one hell of a plan.
one day you're going to die.
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but something will eventually!
at most a couple generations will remember the ways in which your life never mattered, so who cares if it's a waste?
your legacy's not yours to see.
you'll never know what it all means.
everything and everyone goes with the passage of time.
try not to think about it.
there's probably nothing after.
you only have one chance.
if you only have one chance, you oughta try your best to live as you like.
