The Calculation

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
 It's burning, burning us up
 Hey this fire
 It's burning, burning us up
 Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
 
 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
 It's burning, burning us up
 Hey this fire
 It's burning, burning us up
 Hey this fire
 It's burning, burning us up
 Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
 Oh oh oh oh oh
 Wooooh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
 Wooooooh, oh oh oh oh oh oh
 Wooooh, oh oh oh oh oh oh
 Wooooooh, oh oh oh oh oh oh
 Oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh