The Calculation

Album: Far (2009)
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  • You went into the kitchen cupboard
    Got yourself another hour
    And you gave
    Half of it to me
    We sat there looking at the faces
    Of these strangers in the pages
    'Til we knew 'em mathematically

    They were in our minds
    Until forever
    But we didn't mind
    We didn't know better

    So we made our own computer out of macaroni pieces
    And it did our thinking while we lived our lives
    It counted up our feelings
    And divided them up even
    And we called our calculation perfect art

    Didn't even know that love was bigger
    Didn't even know
    That love was so, so
    Hey hey hey

    Hey this fire it's burnin'
    Burnin' us up

    Hey this fire it's burnin'
    Burnin' us
    Up

    Oh
    Oh oh oh

    So we made the hard decision
    And we each made an incision
    Past our muscles and our bones
    Saw our hearts were little stones

    Pulled 'em out they weren't beating
    And we weren't even bleeding
    As we lay 'em on the granite counter top

    We beat 'em up
    Against each other

    We beat 'em up
    Against each other

    We struck 'em hard
    Against each other

    We struck 'em so hard
    So hard until they sparked

    Hey this fire it's burnin'
    Burnin' us up

    Hey this fire it's burnin'
    Burnin' us up

    Hey this fire it's burnin'
    Burnin' us
    Up

    Oh
    Oh oh oh
    Oh oh
    Whoa
    Whoa
    Whoa
    Oh oh oh Writer/s: REGINA SPEKTOR
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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