You can be my alphabet and I will be your calculator
And together we'll work out on the escalator
I will time you as you run up the down
And you'll measure my footsteps as I blow through this town
The mean of our heights is divided by the nights
Which is times'd by the daggers and the route of all our fights
The pass of your poem is to swathe me in your knowing
And the beauty of the word is that you don't have to show it
Oh academia
You can't pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love
I am a dash and you are a dot
When will you see that I am all that you've got
I'm a binary code that you cracked long ago
But to you I'm just a novel that you wish you never wrote
I'm greater than x and lesser than y
So why is it that I still can't catch your eye
You're a cryptic crossword
A song I've never heard
While I sit here drawing circles I'm afraid of being hurt
Oh academia
You can't pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love
You're a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion
Will you listen to my proof or will you add another page on
It appears to me the graph has come and stolen all the laughs
It appears to me the pen has over analyzed again
And if I am a number I'm infinity plus one
And if you are five words you are afraid to be the one
And if you are a number you're infinity plus one
And if I am four words then I am needing of your love
Oh academia
You can't pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love
Oh academia
Academia
Academia
Oh academia
Academia
Academia
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APPEARS ON:
Paste Magazine New Music Sampler Issue 40
Sia: Some People Have Real Problems
YEAR RELEASED:
2008
LENGTH:
3:16
WRITTEN BY:
Sia Furler
Dan Carey
PRODUCED BY:
Jimmy Hogarth
ENGINEERED BY:
Emery Dobyns
Eric Spring
MIXED BY:
Jeremy Wheatly
Richard Edgeler
PERFORMERS:
Sia Furler
Vocals
Beck Hansen
Featured Vocalist, Backing Vocals
Dan Carey
Guitar
Jimmy Hogarth
Guitar, Percussion
Gus Seyffert
Guitar, Backing Vocals
Sam Dixon
Bass
Joey Waronker
Drums
Ed Stevens
Keys
Martin Slattery
Clarinet, Flute
Harry Deerness
Accordion
Brian Lebarton
Backing Vocals
Lucia Ribisi
Backing Vocals
Ryan Faulkner
Backing Vocals
Inara George
Backing Vocals
Mike Green
Backing Vocals
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