Lyrics When Numbers Get Serious - Paul Simon

I have a number in my head
Though I don′t know why it's there
When numbers get serious
You see their shape everywhere

Dividing and multiplying
Exchanging with ease
When times are mysterious
Serious numbers are easy to please

Take my address
Take my phone
Call me if you can
Here′s my address
Here's my phone

Please don't give it to some madman
Hey hey, whoa whoa
Complicated life
Numbers swirling thick and curious

You can cut them with a knife
You can cut them with a knife
Two times two is twenty-two
Four times four is forty-four

When numbers get serious
They leave a mark on your door
Urgent urgent
A telephone is ringing in the hallways

When times are mysterious
Serious numbers will speak to us always
That is why a man with numbers
Can put your mind at ease

We′ve got numbers by the trillions
Here and overseas
Hey hey, whoa whoa

Look at the stink about Japan
All those numbers waiting patiently
Don′t you understand?
Don't you understand?

So wrap me
Wrap me
Wrap me do
In the shelter of your arms

I am ever your volunteer
I won′t do you any harm
I will love innumerably
You can count on my word

When times are mysterious
Serious numbers
Will always be heard
When times are mysterious

Serious numbers will always be heard
And after all is said and done
And the numbers all come home
The four rolls into three
The three turns into two
And the two becomes a
One