Academia

You can be my alphabet and I will be your calculator
 And together we'll work out on the escalator
 I will time you as you run up the down
 And you'll measure my footsteps as I pleasure this town
 The mean of our heights is divided by the nights
 Which is times'd by the daggers and the route of all our fights
 The pass of your poem is to swathe me in your knowing
 And the beauty of the word is that you don't have to show it
 Oh, academia
 You can't pick me up
 Soothe me with your words
 When I need your love
 I am a dash and you are a dot
 When will you see that I am all that you've got?
 I'm a binary code that you 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 of a song I've never heard
 While I sit here drawing circles, I'm afraid of being hurt
 Oh, academia
 You can't 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 has over-analysed 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
 Oh, oh, academia
 You can't pick me up
 Soothe me with your words
 When I need your love
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