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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'd 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-analysed 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
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: May 08, 2010 - 13:36 Seems smart and fun to me - chock full 'o geeky goodness. 7 |
| Walrus_Gumbo | Posted: Apr 06, 2010 - 20:30 zaknafein wrote: This is trying very hard to seem smart, but just comes off as both pretentious and incredibly irritating. Couldn't agree more! The annoyance meter is off the charts on this one!!!  |
| papaman (Downstate New Mexico) | Posted: Feb 02, 2010 - 17:41 School house rock? |
| OlafofIceland (The coldest place my bones have been) | Posted: Oct 31, 2009 - 14:19 Put her with Zero 7 and we've got something, this is uhhh, ok |
| kallistok (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: Apr 24, 2009 - 16:26 Sorry, but no thanks.  |
| newwavegurly | Posted: Feb 20, 2009 - 14:21 The cadence of her vocals in this one really bugs me. |
| jjbix (san diego) | Posted: Feb 20, 2009 - 14:20 sorry, I love Sia but this is one of her weaker numbers. |
| zaknafein (Kansas City, MO) | Posted: Dec 19, 2008 - 06:25 This is trying very hard to seem smart, but just comes off as both pretentious and incredibly irritating. |
| membeth (san diego (but missing austin)) | Posted: Nov 17, 2008 - 16:32 jyoull wrote: I have a nerdy crush on this song, but I'm too geek-shy to ever say it. Hehehe, that's an awesome post. |
| Whirlpool (Nowhere Important) | Posted: Nov 17, 2008 - 16:28 Please.....just.....stop......singing. |
| lmic (Sacramento, CA) | Posted: Nov 17, 2008 - 16:28 Arrrgh, this is growing on me. 3 -> 6 |
| spaceman (Vienna, Austria) | Posted: Nov 17, 2008 - 16:27 Karma police, arrest this girl, she talks in math! |
| tompoll (Seattle WA USA) | Posted: Nov 10, 2008 - 22:43 First time hearing this. I think I'm gonna' like this song 3 or 4 times, then I'll want to rip my own head off. We'll see! |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Oct 23, 2008 - 16:55 Clever lyrics as anyone who has either studied or worked at a University will know. |
| joeychick (San Diego) | Posted: Oct 23, 2008 - 12:01 jyoull wrote: I have a nerdy crush on this song, but I'm too geek-shy to ever say it. Same here. I'm such a dork, I love it. Hey, I can't help it. I'm an actuary. It's a 7 —> 8 for me. |
| musikalia (Somewhere (over the rainbow)) | Posted: Oct 17, 2008 - 04:17 Yipes! The sing-song melody sounds like a children's song. Then the cover just drives it home. |
| Alafia | Posted: Oct 17, 2008 - 04:16  DAH dah dah dah dah DAH dah dah dah dah DAH dah dah dah dah DAH dah dah dah dah etc etc, ad nauseum... |
| jyoull (Cambridge, MA) | Posted: Oct 10, 2008 - 08:04 I have a nerdy crush on this song, but I'm too geek-shy to ever say it. |
| avidfan | Posted: Sep 21, 2008 - 20:21 Very quirky.... I like it simply because it's so different. |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 13:14 ...all this time i thought this was the pierces... |
| auburntigerrich (Edge of the 'Verse) | Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 13:04 Yergh... I enjoyed her collaborations with Zero 7, but alone, she's not my cup of tea. |
| vivakitty | Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 13:00 Yick. "Infinity plus one"? Isn't she precious. |
| wferrier (Johnson City, New York; Home of the Factory) | Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 13:00  |
| Marr (Houston (dreaming of Austin)) | Posted: Aug 26, 2008 - 07:56 Excelsior wrote: Don't complain about overplaying, or the RP police will come after you and tell you that your comments are not welcome. Actually if you can back it up with hard numbers then I'll leave you to your complaints in all happiness. But most of the time you (Excelsior to be specific) just say that this song or that song is played "every day for months" or something like that with no facts to back you up. And when the playlist gets checked it turns out that you're just making s**t up. Actual "comments" are welcome. Unsubstantiated BS? Not so much. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Aug 22, 2008 - 10:39 You can be my victim and I will be your torturer And together we'll frazzle your every aural nerve I will torment you as you listen to me sing And you'll measure my cruelty as your ears begin to ring  |
| Excelsior | Posted: Aug 22, 2008 - 10:31 The_Enemy wrote: y'know, there's so much music in the RP database and this got played yesterday and again today. May I suggest that things be set up such that any song not be played more than once a week? Is that unreasonable? Do-able? Don't complain about overplaying, or the RP police will come after you and tell you that your comments are not welcome. |
| The_Enemy (The Sewer) | Posted: Aug 22, 2008 - 10:27 y'know, there's so much music in the RP database and this got played yesterday and again today. May I suggest that things be set up such that any song not be played more than once a week? Is that unreasonable? Do-able? |
| sqqqrly (Baboosic Lake, NH) | Posted: Aug 22, 2008 - 10:21 Plato is rolling over in his grave.... 6 -> 5 -> 4 as I listen... |
| bugleboy624 (Bluefield, WV) | Posted: Aug 22, 2008 - 10:20 You know, I'm all for geek rock, but this gets annoying really fast. |
| Ahnyer_Keester (Chicago Il) | Posted: Aug 21, 2008 - 07:45 This song sounds like it is sung by a girl who would mark all over her face with kid's markers. Oh. |
| TanteJensen (one step ahead from my shoe shine, two steps away from the county line) | Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 03:13 The_Enemy wrote: For some reason, she reminds me of Brian Wilson's attempt to elevate rap to the level of "real music". A lot of nursery rhymes about eating your vegetables set to music. But he's supposed to be a genius. I don't get Sia either.
Yeah, the text of "vegetables" isn't hot. But making "someone biting a cookie" being the rythm section was (is that correct english? mesa no natif). And that was waaaayyyyyy before there was rap. Or samplers. Or 16-track recording. |
| dctrpunda (the thin line of here) | Posted: Jul 20, 2008 - 15:58 ack! |
| lsherida | Posted: Jul 14, 2008 - 07:44 I was going to rate this a 4, but now I see she's kind of cute so 5. What can I say, I'm shallow. |
| keller1 (Altered States) | Posted: Jul 14, 2008 - 07:43 God this tune bugs me. |
| Koan (in or around Toronto) | Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 12:31 Sounds like the theme to Mr. Show is buried underneath. |
| wferrier (Johnson City, New York; Home of the Factory) | Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 12:29 She blinds me with brilliance!  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 analysed again And if I am a number I'm infinity plus one |
| supremo | Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 12:29 If you are a number you're infinityplusone. I wish I could type that as awkwardly as it sounds. |
| reason06 (Kansas City MO) | Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 12:28 This may be what Alannis would sound like if she were happy.  |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 12:28 how to differentiate Sia and Feist? coupla wacky quirky cutesy creepy indie poppy chicks who are getting lost in the shuffle |
| Ag3nt0rang3 (Canada) | Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 13:02 RadioDoc wrote: That certainly seems to be the case with you. Touché. |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 12:52 Ag3nt0rang3 wrote: Or maybe there's just less humour and wit going on than you think there is. That certainly seems to be the case with you. |
| boober (KC,Mo) | Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 12:46 sfListener wrote: feisty
Dead on! Good call! |
| bugleboy624 (Bluefield, WV) | Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 12:44 sharkartist wrote:   just annoying, that's all.Quite. |
| reason06 (Kansas City MO) | Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 12:43 girl music |
| lmic (Sacramento, CA) | Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 12:43 Seems like it's trying too hard to be clever a la Laurie Anderson, or Tom Lehrer, or They Might Be Giants. |
| sharkartist | Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 10:51 just annoying, that's all. |
| rtb (NE corner of Work and Boredom) | Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 10:51 I'm in academia. And, yes, I have real problems.   |
| Ag3nt0rang3 (Canada) | Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 10:50 RadioDoc wrote: Wow. Given the negative comments I guess humor and wit are just lost on this crowd. Your loss.
Or maybe there's just less humour and wit going on than you think there is. |
| jjbix (san diego) | Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 16:26 i like Sia but this song isn't very good, but she shows her nice vocals any way |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 16:21 Wow. Given the negative comments I guess humor and wit are just lost on this crowd. Your loss. |