Key: G major
Verse 1
F#
B
F#
I have a number in my head
Thought I don't know why
B
E
B
C#m
it's there
F#
B
When numbers get serious
E
G#m
F#
You see their shape every where
B
F#
Dividing and multiplying
G#m
E
Exchanging with ease
B
When times are mysterious
E
F#
Serious numbers are eager
to please
B
F#
B
Verse 2
A#
Take my address
D#
Take my phone
A#
D#
Call me if you can
A#
Here's my address
D#
Here's my phone
A#
D#
Please don't give it to some madman
A#
D#
Hey hey, whoa whoa
Bb
Eb
Complicated life
A#
D#
Numbers swirling thick and curious
G#m
You can cut them with a knife
F#
You can cut them with a knife
B
Verse 3
F#
Two times two is twenty-two
B
Four Four times four is forty-four
C#m
F#
B
When When numbers get serious
G#m
E
G#m
They leave a mark on
F#
A#
F#
your door
Urgent! Urgent!
B
D#m
A telephone ringing
G#m
E
in the hallways
B
When times are mysterious
E
F#
Serious numbers will speak
B
to us always
D#m
D#
Verse 4
A#
D#
That is why a man with numbers
A#
D#
Can put your mind at ease
A#
D#
We've got numbers by the trillions
A#
D#
Here and overseas
A#
D#
Hey hey, whoa whoa
A#
D#
Look at the stink about Japan
A#
D#
All those numbers wait
G#m
ing patiently
Don't you understand?
E
Don't you understand?
F#
B
Verse 5
So wrap me
Wrap me
F#
Wrap me do
B
C#m
In the shelter of your arms
F#
B
E
I am ever your volunteer
F#
I won't do you any harm
B
I will love you innumerably
D#m
G#m
E
You can count on my word
B
When times are mysterious
E
F#
Serious numbers will always be heard
B
Verse 6
E
F#
B
E
F#
B
E
B
G
D
And after
C
all is said and done
And the numbers all come home
Am
G
The four rolls into three
C
The three turns into two
And the two becomes a
One
G
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