Ten-You-Us - Andrew Bird

Tenuous at best was all he had to say when pressed about the rest of it

The world that is

From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to porto-centric Lisboans

Greek Cypriots and and Hobis-hots

Who hang around in ports a lot

Here’s where things start getting weird

While chinless men will scratch their beards

Tool their minds to sharpened axes

Brush up on the Uralic syntaxes

Love of hate acts as an axis

Love of hate acts as an axis

First it wanes and then it waxes

(So procreate and pay your taxes)

Ten you us ness less seven comes to three

Them you us plus eleven

Thank the heavens for their elasticity

And that’s for those who live and die for astronomy

When Coprophagia was writ

Know when to stand know when to sit

Can’t stand to stand can’t stand to sit and who would want to know this

Click click click

Who wants to look upon this pray tell

Tenuousness less seven comes to three

Them you us plus eleven

Comes just shy of infinity

And that’s for those who live and die for numerology