I told you earlier about Paste Magazine, that Koz got for me. Along with every issue is a CD full of songs from up-and-coming artists. One was Sia singing "Academia." I'd actually hear of her. Her full name is Sia Furler, and I've been following her for awhile. Some readers have tried to get me into Zero 7, a group Sia has sung for.
Anyway, "Academia" is a nifty little song, and may make you want to check her out more. She sounds a little bit like a cross between Sarah Slean and the lead singer from Six-Pence None the Richer. And, since the lyrics come fast and furious, I have them copied below for you to follow along. Enjoy.
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 blow through 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’d 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
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
Academia
You can’t pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love
Oh
Academia
Academia
Academia
Oh
Academia
Academia
Academia
1 comment:
Sia's best-known song is the song that played during the end of the last episode of 'Six Feet Under'. That song is called 'Breathe Me' and it's amazing. It's on the album 'Colour The Small One' which is a great album.
Zero 7 had a song on the 'Garden State' soundtrack called 'In the Waiting Line'.
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