Normal
Channel: Julia Bloom
Date: 17/10/2018

Week 42 #songaweek2018. Suggested theme "socks." A completely autobiographical song exploring how things that seem strange in retrospect can feel perfectly normal at the time; and how true it is that no matter where we come from, we're 100% human, valid, legitimate, no need to prove our personhood - and so is everyone else - we're each special which makes us all "normal." 

A G A G DD
A  G  A 
   I used to live in Indiana
 G        D
In a trailer park on the edge of town
A      G    A   G
There was a field where we ran and played
 D    A   
And I liked to pick Queen Anne’s Lace

 Bm      D
It was normal, all so normal
  A    G
Like shoes and socks, baby dolls and blocks
  D   A
And black and white TV

I used to pledge allegiance to the Bible
And the flags of my faith and country
Every morning at the Christian school
Where they gave us all the answers

It was normal, all so normal
I was good as gold, did what I was told
And I won a lot of trophies

G    D       A
That was a long time ago
G       D       E
I still don’t know what I don’t know

I’ve moved a dozen times since then
Geographically, theologically
I own a single-family detached dwelling
And I took my trophies to the thrift store

This is normal, all so normal
I’m a bona fide, genuine 
I have always been and I will always be
like every one of you looking back at me,
An honest-to-God human being