| How should I begin? |
| I find myself residing
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| At the dried out end of a dead history
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| All my thoughts are dirt scattered on a coffin
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| And I a dilettante funereal spectator here
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| How should I presume? |
| A be suited bourgeois mourner
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| Virgin to surrender and vivid sense
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| I scour lichened stones, desperately seeking
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| Daedalus’s paternal secret of where we will land
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| Well, I was born with four fingers on each hand
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| And with my eight fingers and my thumbs I do maths
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| Once again, how should I begin?
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| I’ve started weak and I’m stuttering
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| But I have remembered all my lines
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| It seems that I have thus presumed to talk of maths
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| In front of crowded rooms but I’ll make the two times table mine
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| Calculus finishes me, I don’t follow trigonometry
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| I’ve got nothing to add to algebra
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| (The more complex functions, I don’t remember)
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| But arithmetic, the absolute zero is arithmetic
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| On fingers and toes
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| I have remembered all my lines
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| And I’ll make the two times table mine
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| I will not presume but I will thus begin |