The Calculation Songtext / Lyric

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 the strangers in the pages

Until we knew them 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 it called our calculation

Perfect love






Didn't even know

That love was bigger

Didn't even know

That love was so, so

Hey hey hey hey



Hey this fire, this fire

I'm burning us up

Hey this fire, this fire

I'm burning us up

Oh, oo oo oo, oo oo oo oo



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 them on our 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 'til they sparked



Hey this fire, this fire

I'm burning us up

Hey this fire, this fire

I'm burning us up

Hey this fire, this fire

I'm burning us up

Oh, oo oo oo, oo oo oo oo