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The Calculation Tab

by Regina Spektor


(listen to the song for rhythm, or just play it the way you want/like/can)


Intro:   x2

           
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 these strangers in the pages
                            
'Til we knew 'em 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 that calculation perfect love

                             
Didn't even know that love was bigger
            
Didn't even know
              
That love was so, so
Hey Hey Hey

         
Hey this fire it's burnin'
          
Burnin' us up
         
Hey this fire it's burnin'

Burnin' us..

Up


Ohhhhh

Ohh Ohh Ohh

      
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 'em on the 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 until they sparked

         
Hey this fire it's burnin'
          
Burnin' us up
         
Hey this fire it's burnin'
          
Burnin' us up
         
Hey this fire it's burnin'

Burnin' us..

Up

  
(ohhh ohh ohhhs & woo wooo wooos here, repeat until you get tired of it. i could be 
and there might be some slight changes in the chord sequence, but i‘m feeling too lazy to care.)