G You can be my alphabet and I will be your calculator F# And together we'll work out on the escalator G I will time you as you run up and down F# And you'll measure my footsteps as I pleasure this town 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 Chorus: Bm D Oh academia you can't pick me up G A# C Soothe me with your words when I need your love I am a dash and you're a dot When will you see that I am all that you've got? I'm a binary code that you've 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, a song I've never heard While I sit here drawing circles, I'm afraid of being hurt Chorus: Oh, academia, you can 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 is overanalyzed 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" Chorus: Oh, academia, you can pick me up Soothe me with your words when I need your love Oh, academia, academia, academia Oh, academia, academia, academia | TransposeReset Font sizeReset Chords fingeringsA# C D F# G Bm |