You can be my alphabet and I will be your calculator 
And together we'll work out on the escalator 
Oh, I will time you as you run up the down 
And you'll measure my footsteps as I blow through this town

The mean of our heights is divided by the nights 
Which is times'd by the daggers and the route of all our fights 
The pass of your poem just to swathe me in your knowing 
And the beauty of the word is that you don't have to show it

Oh academia, you can pick me up 
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

I am a dash and you are a dot 
When will you see that I am all that you've got? 
I'm a binary code that you cracked long ago 
But to you I'm just a novel that you wish you'd never wrote

I'm greater than X and lesser than Y
So why is it that I still can't catch your eye? 
You're a cryptic crossword, a song I've never heard 
While I sit here drawing circles I'm afraid of being hurt

Oh academia, you can pick me up 
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

You're a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion 
Will you listen to my proof or will you add another page on? 
It appears to me the graph has come and stolen all the laughs 
It appears to me the pen is over analyzed again

And if I am a number, I'm infinity plus one 
And if you are five words, you are afraid to be the one 
And if you are a number, you're infinity plus one 
And if I am four words then I am needing of your love

Oh academia, you can pick me up 
Soothe me with your words when I need your love

Oh, academia, academia, academia 
Oh, academia, academia, academia