LYRICS
GEOMETRY
I was standing in my bedroom
Thinking about triangles
So I got out my ruler
And I drew one on some cardboard
It really looked amazing
I showed it to my Mother
And she just stared at me blankly
She didn’t understand it
And then she sent me down the shop
To buy a pack of twenty Regal
Architects and flowers
Use the same mathematic powers
There’s elegance and poetry
In the beauty of geometry
I wrote a letter to Lego
Expressing my disappointment
That they don’t do dodecahedrons
But nobody wrote back to me and I was really very angry
I went down to their office
Stood outside it with a placard
Saying “Make dodecahedrons”
Then a big bloke in a suit came out
And pushed me down a banking
Pythagoras and Euclid
Don’t underestimate what they did
Imagine the futility
Of a world without geometry
Every Friday night, I go down town
In a hexagon hat with equations in my fist
Visions of isosceles in my head
I tell everyone in the pub
Oh, why won’t they understand
That the power of shapes can transform our lives
We are all equilateral in the eyes of God
But some are more equilateral than others
But triangles and polygons
Pi R times the square root of R squared
Plus H squared
Alpha over Theta equals Omega to the power of Ulysees
divided by three
That’s the wonderful, exciting, sexy world of geometry
Polaroid Suitcase (2002-03)
Alternative ending (from the Sex Dummy EP)
So now I’m alone. Good. I don’t like people. I only like
robots and cars, and dandies, and cowboys and Red Indians,
warriors and highwaymen, harlequins and ballet dancers,
industrial architecture, fire escapes, bin liners, tower blocks,
subways and tunnels, deserted reservoirs, disused
dockyards, answering machines, office chairs and the ZX81.
I like Italian art and Japanese furniture, I like German
photographs. I like all the countries who was our enemies in
the Second World War. I don’t know if that makes me a
traitor, but I like Chinese curries, and they was our allies, so
I’m probably alright.
But triangles and polygons! Pi R times the square root of R
squared plus H squared. Alpha over Theta equals Omega to
the power of Ulysees divided by three!
That’s the wonderful, exciting, sexy world of geometry!
LYRICS
GEOMETRY
I was standing in my bedroom
Thinking about triangles
So I got out my ruler
And I drew one on some cardboard
It really looked amazing
I showed it to my Mother
And she just stared at me blankly
She didn’t understand it
And then she sent me down the shop
To buy a pack of twenty Regal
Architects and flowers
Use the same mathematic powers
There’s elegance and poetry
In the beauty of geometry
I wrote a letter to Lego
Expressing my disappointment
That they don’t do dodecahedrons
But nobody wrote back to me
And I was really very angry
I went down to their office
Stood outside it with a placard
Saying “Make dodecahedrons”
Then a big bloke in a suit came out
And pushed me down a banking
Pythagoras and Euclid
Don’t underestimate what they did
Imagine the futility
Of a world without geometry
Every Friday night, I go down town
In a hexagon hat with equations in my fist
Visions of isosceles in my head
I tell everyone in the pub
Oh, why won’t they understand
That the power of shapes
Can transform our lives
We are all equilateral in the eyes of God
But some are more equilateral than others
But triangles and polygons
Pi R times the square root of R squared
Plus H squared
Alpha over Theta equals Omega
To the power of Ulysees divided by three
That’s the wonderful, exciting
Sexy world of geometry
Alternative ending
(from the Sex Dummy EP)
So now I’m alone.
Good. I don’t like people.
I only like robots and cars
And dandies, and cowboys and Red Indians,
Warriors and highwaymen,
Harlequins and ballet dancers,
Industrial architecture, fire escapes, bin liners,
Tower blocks, subways and tunnels,
Deserted reservoirs, disused dockyards,
Answering machines, office chairs
And the ZX81.
I like Italian art and Japanese furniture
I like German photographs.
I like all the countries who was our enemies
In the Second World War.
I don’t know if that makes me a traitor,
But I like Chinese curries,
And they was our allies,
So I’m probably alright.
But triangles and polygons!
Pi R times the square root of R squared
Plus H squared.
Alpha over Theta equals Omega
To the power of Ulysees divided by three!
That’s the wonderful, exciting,
Sexy world of geometry!
