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Yeah they said you called me maybe yesterday
I don't even have the strength to pick up the phone
You wouldn't even know me since you went away
The Prozac doesn't do it for me anymore
Yeah you ought to take your medication every day
Be a good dog, live life in a wonderful way
Tell me why you want to be blind
I don't want to be normal like you
I know now every day
I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be normal too
I heard those stupid people talk about you again
I just have to laugh to keep from hurting bad
Their simple minds just cannot seem to understand
You are neurotic and depressed
It doesn't mean that you're sad
You walk around oblivious to everything
You wear that party dress, black mascara
Like you're queen for the day
I will never be normal like you
You walk around oblivious to everyone
I see you walking slow and simple underneath the big black sun
Tell me why you want to be blind
I don't want to be normal like you
I know now every day
I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be complacent
I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be sedated
Yes I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be normal too, I can be normal too
I can be normal like you
I don't even have the strength to pick up the phone
You wouldn't even know me since you went away
The Prozac doesn't do it for me anymore
Yeah you ought to take your medication every day
Be a good dog, live life in a wonderful way
Tell me why you want to be blind
I don't want to be normal like you
I know now every day
I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be normal too
I heard those stupid people talk about you again
I just have to laugh to keep from hurting bad
Their simple minds just cannot seem to understand
You are neurotic and depressed
It doesn't mean that you're sad
You walk around oblivious to everything
You wear that party dress, black mascara
Like you're queen for the day
I will never be normal like you
You walk around oblivious to everyone
I see you walking slow and simple underneath the big black sun
Tell me why you want to be blind
I don't want to be normal like you
I know now every day
I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be complacent
I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be sedated
Yes I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be normal too, I can be normal too
I can be normal like you
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Track duration: 03:13
"Normal Like You" as written by Art Alexakis, Craig Montoya, Greg Eklund
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"Yeah they said you called me maybe yesterday
I don't even have the strength to pick up the phone"
is the way you feel when using or also just being sober but not having learned how to be happy sober yet. The person who called him was his girlfriend, and as he further explains in the song his heart is broken because she has found meds to be happy while he is going through life trying to be happy and clean without drugs (from a doctor or a dealer). The real part of these lyrics that hit me yesterday (I was reading them on my phone waiting for an AA meeting to start) are the lines;
"I know now every day
I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be complacent
Yes I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be sedated
Yes I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be normal too, I can be normal too
I can be normal like you"
I am going through this. Although I have been free of drugs and alcohol (including prescribed medication) I find that life keeps getting happier as I continue growing. I felt suicidal after about 2 years of sobriety but now approaching my 3rd year I am sleeping well, eating well, getting exercise, talking about my emotional and relationship troubles and i'm feeling happy a lot. I see that life sober doesn't mean I will be suicidal and angry, It takes time but I am getting to a point where life will be "good". So my opinion is basically that this is about people who are addicts or alcoholics and how getting sober can make you happy and "normal" with time and effort. Thanks for reading, this is just my subjective opinion so hope it helps somebody, but then again the song could mean somethings different to others.
look up neurochemistry and learn something.
as for the song meaning, well it's pretty obvious.
When everyone on here is talking about being "drugged up" on drugs like Ritalin, Prozac, etc., they're referring to the people who are OVER-medicated either by their own volition or by others around them mistaking normal human highs and lows as a root of a much more extensive problem. If you have a genuine chemical imbalance, yes, take something so you can FUNCTION. Without my medication, I shake really badly and can't keep a straight thought or hold a conversation without getting distracted.
In this song, he says "I don't want to be 'normal like you'" meaning everyone thinks she is "normal" because she doesn't act like anything gets to her and she conforms to what society wants her to be; however, she can't feel anything:
"You walk around oblivious to everything
You wear that party dress and black mascara like you're queen for the day
Tell me why you want to be blind
I don't want to be normal like you"
He doesn't want to be the zombie that OVERmedication (not just "medication" itself) had made her into. He wants to feel emotion ("I don't even have the strength to pick up the phone", "I just have to laugh to keep from hurting bad" -- he's letting himself feel down and weak and he's okay with it).
And the lines:
"Their simple minds just cannot seem to understand
You are neurotic and depressed, that doesn't mean that you are sad"
I don't think he's referring to sad as a comparison to depressed. I think he means more like she has highs and lows and quirks, but that doesn't mean there's something wrong with her. He's trying to tell her that she's human and doesn't need to be medicated as heavily as she is.
Yep. Rant and rave done. BEAUTIFUL SONG!!
Ridilan and Prozac are still being prescribed like crazy, my girlfirend teaches 1st grade and over 50% of the students in her class are taking a mood altering drug, it is really sad.
Seriously, since when did thinking and expressing individuality as a child become a bad thing?
At the rate these drugs are being given out, pretty soon all of us are going to be "complacent" and "sedated".
And great quote socc rocket, I had heard it before, but I think it does sum things up perfectly.
-Gandhi