When Numbers Get Serious Lyrics - Paul Simon

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 easy to please 

Take my address 

Take my phone 

Call me if you can 

Here's my address 

Here's my phone 

Please don't give it to some madman 

Hey hey, whoa whoa 

Complicated life 

Numbers swirling thick and curious 

You can cut them with a knife 

You can cut them with a knife 

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 hallways 

When times are mysterious 

Serious numbers will speak to us always 

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 the stink about Japan 

All those numbers waiting patiently 

Don't you understand? 

Don't you understand? 

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 

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 

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