Academia lyrics

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 to 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 timesed by the daggers in the root 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 pick me up

Soothe me with your words when I need your love

I am a dash and you're a dot

When will you see that I am all that you've got?

I'm a binary code that you've 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 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 is overanalyzed 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 pick me up

Soothe me with your words when I need your love

Oh, academia, academia, academia

Oh, academia, academia, academia

• Artist:Sia
• Album:Some People Have Real Problems (2008)