"Capital I" lyrics

He's keeping busy
He's bleeding stones
With his machinations
And his palindromes
Anything but hear a voice
That says that we're all basically alone

Poor professor Pynchon
Had only good intentions
When he put his Bunsen burners all away
And turning to a playground in a Petri dish
Where single cells would swing their fists
At anything that looks like easy prey

In a nature show that rages everyday
It was then he heard his intuition say
Then he heard his intuition say

We all live in a capital I
We're keeping it clean
From the ground up to the sky
Some show no mercy
While others are painfully shy

And he just wants to know the reason why
Oh, he just wants to know the reason why
Yeah, he just wants to know the reason why
Oh, why

Why do they congregate in groups of four
Scatter like a billion spores
And let the wind just carry them away
How can kids be so mean
Their famous doctor tried to glean
As he went home at the end of the day

From the nature show that rages every day
It was then he heard his intuition say
Then he heard his intuition say

We all live in a capital I
We're keeping it clean
From the ground up to the sky
Some show no mercy
While others are painfully shy

Tell me doctor can you quantify
Oh tell me doctor can you quantify
Cause he just wants to know the reason why
Oh he just wants to know the reason why

We're keeping busy
We're bleeding stones
Our machinations and our palindromes
Anything but hear a voice that says that we are basically alone