Academia

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 pleasure 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 of 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, oh, academia You can't pick me up Soothe me with your words When I need your love Ooh, academia Academia Academia Oh, academia Academia Academia