The Calculation - Regina Spektor

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 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 that calculation "Perfect Love."
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.

Ooooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

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 them out they weren't beating
And we weren't even bleeding
As we lay them on the granite countertop.
We beat them up
Against each other.
We beat them up
Against each other.
We struck them hard
Against each other.
We struck them 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.

Ooooh-ooh-ooh-ooh...

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