Checking The Arithmetic Lyrics - Dave Stringer

If life were a cool calculation 

where all of the numbers compute, 

then one could sum all of creation 

and reduce it all down to the root. 

But my mind is a multiplication 

of chance and illusion and doubt: 

I'm confused and impatient, 

a fool at foundation. 

I never will figure it out. 

Am I just a mutation with a curious urge? 

An endless vexation, a mistake that recurs? 

A singular statistic, a product of the dice? 

Checking the arithmetic, it's not quite right... 

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I questioned a mathematician: 

my life is uncertain and strange, 

tell me what of the human condition 

can the priesthood of science explain? 

She said: life is a state of transition, 

a pattern of chaos and change: 

of loss and division 

and love insufficient 

to answer the problem of pain. 

Am I just a tangle of jumping nerves 

or a point on a line describing a curve 

flickering in physics' cinema of sight? 

Checking the arithmetic and it's not quite right... 

If I only know what I am feeling 

and can't prove the world outside, 

then standing or kneeling 

or staring at the ceiling 

you've gotta have faith as your guide. 

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The world of sensation 

is a puzzling equation, 

a persistent hallucination 

so you've gotta have faith as your eye... 

Am I just an ache in a painful world 

dreaming awake in a reciprocal blur 

I'm baffled beyond logic and searching for insight, 

checking the arithmetic, it's not quite right....