[Verse 1]
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You can be my alphabet and I will be your calculator
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And together well work out on the escalator
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I will time you as you run up to down
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And youll measure my footsteps as I blow through this town
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The mean of our heights is divided by the nights
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Which is timesed by the daggers in the root of all our fights
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The pass of your poem is to swathe me in your knowing
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And the beauty of the word is that you dont have to show it
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[Chorus]
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Oh, academia, you can pick me up
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Soothe me with your words when I need your love
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[Verse 2]
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I am a dash and youre a dot
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When will you see that I am all that youve got?
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Im a binary code that youve cracked long ago
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But to you Im just a novel that you wish you never wrote
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Im greater than X and lesser than Y, so why is it
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That I still cant catch your eye?
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Youre a cryptic crossword, a song Ive never heard
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While I sit here drawing circles, Im afraid of being hurt
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[Chorus]
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Oh, academia, you can pick me up
~#**************#~
Soothe me with your words when I need your love
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[Verse 3]
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Youre a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion
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Will you listen to my proof or will you add another page on?
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It appears to me the graph has come and stolen all the laughs
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It appears to me the pen is overanalyzed again
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And if I am a number, Im infinity plus one
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And if you are five words, you are “afraid to be the one”
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And if you are a number, youre infinity plus one
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And if I am four words then I am “needing of your love”
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[Chorus]
~#**************#~
Oh, academia, you can pick me up
~#**************#~
Soothe me with your words when I need your love
~#**************#~
[Outro]
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Oh, academia, academia, academia
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Oh, academia, academia, academia
