Normal

Lyrics

[Intro ☕][Energy: Low]
(fingerpicked acoustic — coiled, not relaxed)
(bass enters restless underneath)
(something feels like it's about to happen)

Normal
(the doctor said normal)
(like it was just a word)

[Verse 1 ☕][Energy: Mid-Low]
Health destroying diabetic
That's what the paperwork said
Three medications holding back the damage
While the damage
Kept going
Ahead

I knew what was coming
If I stayed on that road
Blindness creeping in at the edges
Or waking up one morning
With one less foot
Than I had before

My blood was running a war inside me
And winning
For a while

[Pre-Chorus][Energy: Build]
(bass starts climbing, violin enters tense)
Then I made some choices
Quiet daily choices
Nobody films the ones that actually count
And one morning the doctor looked up from the paper
Paused

And said a word
I thought
I'd lost

[Chorus 🔥][Energy: High]
(band opens — coiled energy releases but doesn't fully resolve)
Normal
He said normal
Like it was just a word
Like I hadn't been staring down
The dark end of a road
That takes your sight
Takes your feet
Takes everything
Piece
By
Piece

Normal
With my own two hands
My own two feet —
(still here)
(still mine)
My own choices every day
I got back to normal
And I will never
Say that word
The same way
Again

[Verse 2 ☕][Energy: Mid-Low]
(drops back — guitar coiled, voice close)
No Metformin in the morning
No Glipizide at night
No injection in my stomach
Just a body
Learning
How to fight

Right

There was a season
I don't need to name it
When the discipline slipped
And the word slipped too
Back toward the edge
Back toward what was waiting
At the end of that road
I almost returned to

And I stood there with that reading
Like a man who escaped a burning house
And smelled smoke again

[Pre-Chorus][Energy: Build]
(violin tightens, bass more urgent)
So I made the choices
The quiet daily choices
The ones nobody sees
But your body knows
Every single one

And one morning
The doctor looked up again
Paused again
And said
Normal
Again

[Chorus 🔥][Energy: High]
Normal
He said normal
Like it was just a word
Like I hadn't been fighting
To keep my sight
To keep my feet
To keep my body
Whole

Normal
With my own two hands
My own two feet —
(still here)
(still mine)
My own choices every day
I got back to normal
Off the medications
Off the road
That was taking me apart

[Bridge 😭][Energy: Low]
(everything drops — fingerpicked guitar alone, coiled and quiet)
Here's what nobody tells you
About the word you've been chasing

(beat — long, held)

The day you earn it
Is the day you understand
You'll be earning it
Every single day
For the rest of your life

(bass enters, deliberate)
Not because you're broken
That's just how a body works

You build the health
Life happens
Health slips
You build again

(violin enters — tense, unresolved)
Nobody stays normal
By accident
Nobody keeps their sight
Their feet
Their life
Without keeping at it

That's not a punishment

That's the deal
The real deal
The one the doctor doesn't mention
When he says the word
Like it's nothing

[Bridge 🔥][Energy: Mid-High]
(band enters fuller — coiled energy building)
And I used to hear that as a burden
Now I hear it as the only thing
That makes sense

Every morning is the beginning
Every meal is the choice
Every day I wake up
Is the day I decide
What my body will be

Not arrived
Not finished
Not safe yet —
Never fully safe

But normal
Today
Choosing normal
Today

[Final Chorus 🔥][Energy: High]
(full band — simmering tension fully released but still unresolved)
Normal
Just normal
The most extraordinary
Ordinary word
A doctor ever said
To me

Normal
With my own two hands
My own two feet —
Still here
Still mine
Still choosing

From health destroying
To normal
From blindness waiting at the edges
To eyes wide open

From a body working against me
To a body
I am working
For

I haven't arrived
There is no arriving
There's only the daily
Stubborn
Eyes open
Choosing

Normal
Today
Normal
Today

[Outro ☕][Energy: Low]
(fingerpicked guitar returns — same coiled phrase as intro)
(bass holds one note underneath)
(violin fades on an unresolved chord)

Normal

The doctor said normal

(beat)

Like it was just a word

(long silence — the tension never fully releases)

It wasn't