F
You can be my alphabet and I will be your calculator
E
And together we'll work out on the escalator
F
I will time you as you run up the down
E
And you'll measure my footsteps as I blow through this town
F
The mean of our heights is divided by the nights
E
Which is times'd by the daggers and the route of all our fights
F
The pass of your poem is to swathe me in your knowing
E
And the beauty of the word is that you don't have to show it

Am           C
Oh academia you can't pick me up
F                    Ab
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

F
I am a dash and you are a dot
E
When will you see that I am all that you've got
F
I'm a binary code that you cracked long ago
E
But to you I'm just a novel that you wish you'd never wrote
F
I'm greater than x and lesser than y, so why is it
E
That I still can't catch your eye?
F
You're a cryptic crossword, a song I've never heard
E
While I sit here drawing circles I'm afraid of being hurt

Am           C
Oh academia you can't pick me up
F                    Ab
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

F
You're a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion
          E
Will you listen to my proof or will you add another page on
     F
It appears to me the graph has come and stolen all the laughs
      E
It appears to me the pen has over analysed again
    F
And if I am a number I'm infinity plus one
    E
And if you are five words you are afraid to be the one
    F
And if you are a number you're infinity plus one
    E
And if I am four words then I am needing of your love

Am           C
Oh academia you can't pick me up
F                     Ab
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

( Am  C  F  Ab )

Oooh Academia, Academia, Academia
Oooh Academia, Academia, Academia