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Jonathan Coulton in LA -01-The Future Soon
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They invented a reason
Thats why it stings
They dont think you matter
Because you dont have pretty rings
I keep telling you I dont care
I keep saying theres one thing they cant change
Im your moon
Youre my moon
We go round and round
From out here, its the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
Let them shuffle the numbers
Watch them come and go
Were the ones who are out here
Out past the edge of what they know
We can only be who we are
It doesnt matter if they dont understand
Im your moon
Youre my moon
We go round and round
From out here, its the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
Who you were
Long before
They said you were
no more
Sad excuse for a sunrise
Its so cold out here
Ice and silence and dark skies
As we go round another year
Let them think what they like, were fine
I will always be right here next to you
Im your moon
Youre my moon
We go round and round
From out here, its the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
I will wait a lifetime if it takes that long
I know shes out there for I have heard her song
In dreams she sings to me
Her angels voice a symphony
Is she in a garden or a meadow fair
Does the dappled sunlight shine ribbons in her hair?
Does she sit patiently smiling as she waits for me?
Shes my millionaire girlfriend and shes my life
Once I finally find her Ill get permission from the wife
We will all live in our castle high
My beloved and my millionaire girlfriend and I
Shes a stolen secret from a pirates chest
I will wear an ascot and a suit that has a vest
And I will put it on as I watch gardener mow the lawn
Shes a fairy princess from a song of old
I will have a toothbrush that is made of solid gold
And I will watch TV as my manservant flosses me
Shes my millionaire girlfriend and shes my life
Once I finally find her Ill get permission from the wife
We will all live in our castle high
My beloved and my millionaire girlfriend and I
It does not matter to me if shes pretty
All that counts is what shes got at Citibank
Chase Manhattan or even Washington Mutual
When my search is ended I will cherish her
She will sign some papers, give me power of attorney
And whats hers will be mine in perpetuity
Shes my millionaire girlfriend and shes my life
Once I finally find her Ill get permission from the wife
We will all live in our castle high
My beloved and my millionaire girlfriend and I
My beloved and my millionaire girlfriend and I
My beloved and my millionaire girlfriend and I
Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician
Every one of them is a splinter in my eye
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
And the Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
On a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born
His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
Left him well equipped to face those demons down
He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules
He used his giant brain to turn the game around
And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head
A bulbous pointy form
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down
Take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series of Zs should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
Mandelbrot Set youre a Rorschach Test on fire
Youre a day-glo pterodactyl
Youre a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
Youre one badass fucking fractal
And youre just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way
Mandelbrots in heaven, at least he will be when hes dead
Right now hes still alive and teaching math at Yale
He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none
And his geometry succeeds where others fail
If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings
From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home
Just take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series of Zs should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
Mandelbrot Set youre a Rorschach Test on fire
Youre a day-glo pterodactyl
Youre a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
Youre one badass fucking fractal
And youre just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way
And youre just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way
Go on change the world in a tiny way
Come on change the world in a tiny way
The verses are : E A F#m A B E (repeat)
then the chords get nice and flavourful: Amaj7 Emaj7 (repeat twice more) F#m B E
Sprinkle in some Esus2 and Esus4 to emulate the nifty synthesizer line.
Another verse as above, then the pre-chorus bit: E E Esus4 Esus4 and other fun noodling things as you recite mathematical formulae, and so on.
then more pre-chorus bit: A A B B Ab Ab C#m C#m, A B E
The the chorus (I encourage dancing while playing it: take no pity on fragile objects near you, unless they are fragile relatives) B E B E E7, F#m Amaj7 F#m Amaj7 F#m A E
Repeat various bits until achieving mathematical enlightenment.
We took the freeway out of town
We found a place to settle down
We bought a driveway and a swingset and a dog
You got your very own bathroom
I got my very own workshop in the basement
We sit around staring at the wall-to-wall
Take field trips to our favorite mall
Waiting for the day when all the kids grow up and leave us here
If you need me
Ill be downstairs
With the shop vac
You can call but I probably wont hear you
Because its loud with the shop vac on
But youll be OK
Cause youll be upstairs
With the TV
You can cry and I probably wont hear you
Because its loud with the shop vac on
We hung a flag above the door
Checked out the gourmet grocery store
I bought a mower I can ride around the yard
But we havent got real friends
And now even the fake ones have stopped calling
Maybe if you forget to hide the keys
Ill take a ride to Applebys
Ill come home drunk on daiquiris and throw up on the neighbors lawn
If you need me
Ill be downstairs
With the shop vac
You can call but I probably wont hear you
Because its loud with the shop vac on
But youll be OK
Cause youll be upstairs
With the TV
You can cry and I probably wont hear you
Because its loud with the shop vac on
I like the Starbucks here thats better than the other one
Cause the other ones not as good
They really need to put a light there cause its hard to turn
Its hard to make a left turn
And when its time to go to bed
Im still awake inside my head
Im floating up above the house and looking down
I guess I gotta go back there
I guess there never was any other answer
And as the freeway hums the cars go by
The headlights roll across the sky
Many miles away but I can see them speeding through the dark
If you need me
Ill be downstairs
With the shop vac
You can call but I probably wont hear you
Because its loud with the shop vac on
But youll be OK
Cause youll be upstairs
With the TV
You can cry and I probably wont hear you
Because its loud with the shop vac on
The ship sailed into harbor
After fifteen months at sea
The captain hit the tavern
With his crew of fifty-three
After drinking up their pay
They staggered through the town
But all the inns and public houses
Turned the sailors down
The captain said Fear not, me lads
You all can come with me
I live just round the corner
And you all can stay for free
But when the captains wife awoke
Upon the break of day
They say that you could hear her wailin
Clear to Botny Bay
She said theres
Seamen all around the bed
And seamen on the floor
Seamen in the bathroom
And behind the closet door
Theres seamen in the fireplace
And seamen in the hall
The living room is carpeted
With seamen, wall to wall
Theres seamen in the entryway
And seamen on the stair
And worst of all, theres even seamen
In me underwear
Theres some behind the larder
And beneath the table, too
I do believe your seamen
Got into me Irish stew
Theres seamen here in front of me
And seamen in the rear
My God—theres even seamen
Hanging from the chandelier
Theres seamen on the windowsill
And seamen in the yard
The seamen even left a stain
Upon the Saint Bernard
Although I am a patient wife
Tis more than I can bear
To wake up in the morning
With your seamen in my hair
I neer again do wish to see thee
Darken up my door
So clean up all your seamen and
Come round my way no more
So clean up all your seamen and
Come round my way no more!
Paul and Storm performing Extremely Old at the Paul Gleason Theater 9-12-07
Paul and Storm performing at the Paul Gleason Theater in L.A. 9-12-07