Symmetry (the Way Things Have To Be) Lyrics - Singles - Jane Siberry

Or say you're in a room 

And there's a beautiful fire 

And you're looking out the window 

(At the snow and the winter streets below) 

But your eyes keep returning to the fire 

This is what I'm thinking 

The reason your eyes keep returning to the fire 

Is because it divides your sight 

Into left and right, and dark and light and dark 

Like a fine dividing wire 

Here's another thing 

That I noticed last night 

When he kissed me over there 

He usually kissed me over here, too 

I must have known it in my heart 

And with my inner sense of art 

Because when I kiss him over there 

I never kiss him over here 

It's the way of the world 

People do it everywhere 

If you're going to do it over here 

Then usually they do it over there too 

Symmetry is the way things have to be 

Symmetry is the way things have to be 

Or say you're at a table 

And you have your forks and knives 

Do you move them around 

'Til you get them just right? 

(This is while you're talking to someone) 

Or you work in a nightclub 

And you notice that 

Even though you try to seat everyone on one side of the room 

They always spread themselves out evenly from this side to that 

Like atoms in a model 

It's the way of the world 

People do it everywhere 

If you're going to do it over here 

Then usually they do it over there too 

Symmetry is the way things have to be 

Symmetry is the way things have to be 

Or say you're in an air show 

And you're flying with two other pilots 

And you want to do it right 

Because you like to do it right 

And one guy is flying 

At the tip of your left wing 

And the other guy's off 

Doing his own thing 

Would it bother you? 

It bothers me 

It's the way of the world 

People do it everywhere 

If you're going to do it over here 

Then usually they do it over there too 

Symmetry is the way things have to be 

Symmetry is the way things have to be