Siberry jane symmetry (the way things have to be) lyrics

...or say you're in a room

 and there's a beautiful fire

 and you're looking out the window

 (at the snow and the winter streets below)

 but your eyes keep returning to the fire

 

 this is what I'm thinking

 the reason your eyes keep returning to the fire

 is because it divides your sight

 into left and right

 and dark and light and dark

 like a fine dividing wire

 

 here's another thing

 that I noticed last night

 whe he kissed me over there

 he usually kissed me over here, too

 

 I must have known it in my heart

 and with my inner sense of art

 because when I kiss him over there

 I never kiss him over here

 

 it's the way of the world

 people do it everywhere

 if you're going to do it over here

 then usually they do it over there too

 

 symmetry is the way things have to be

 symmetry is the way things have to be

 

 or say you're at a table

 and you have your forks and knives

 do you move them around

 'til you get them just right?

 (this is while you're talking to someone)

 

 or you work in a nightclub

 and you notice that

 even though you try to seat everyone on one side of the room

 they always spread themselves out evenly from this side to that

 like atoms in a model

 

 it's the way of the world...

 

 or say you're in an air show

 and you're flying with two other pilots

 and you want to do it right

 because you like to do it right

 

 and one guy is flying

 at the tip of your left wing

 and the other guy's off

 doing his own thing

 would it bother you?

 it bothers me

 

 it's the way of the world...