When Numbers Get Serious

[Verse 1]

I have a number in my head, though I don't know why it's there

When numbers get serious, you see their shape everywhere

Dividing and multiplying, exchanging with ease

When times are mysterious, serious numbers are eager to please

[Chorus 1]

Take my address, take my phone, call me if you can

Here's my address, here's my phone now, please don't give it to some madman

Hey hey, whoa whoa, it's a complicated life

Numbers swirling thick and curious, you can cut them with a knife

You can cut them with a knife

[Verse 2]

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four

When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door

Urgent. urgent, a telephone is ringing in the hallway

When times are mysterious, serious numbers will speak to us always

[Chorus 2]

That is why a man with numbers can put your mind at ease

We've got numbers by the trillions, here and overseas

Hey hey, whoa whoa, look at that stink about Japan

All those numbers waiting patiently now, don't you understand?

Don't you understand?

[Verse 3]

So wrap me, wrap me, wrap me do, in the shelter of your arms

I am ever your volunteer, I won't do you any harm

I will love innumerably, you can count on my word

When times are mysterious, serious numbers will always be heard

When times are mysterious, serious numbers will always be heard

[Outro]

And after all is said and done

And the numbers all come home

The four rolls into three, the three turns into two

And the two becomes a one