Music and Lyrics by Alastair Moock ©1999 Moockshake Music
Economist John fell in love
But he wanted to make sure it was real
So he devised a graph to test over time
The change in the way he did feel
He set to work with rulers and different colored pencils
And he drew his lines real straight
And he made a color code of his variable emotions
With red for love and a swampy brown for hate
Then John began to transfer all his feelings into numbers
To calculate his love
And so he wouldn’t smudge the lines on his heartfelt chart
He always wore a special glove
His woman wanted cuddling
And his parents wanted marriage
But John told them all to wait
He said he’d stick to slow precision and an economic vision
To determine his romantic fate
John spent every minute from December to November
Filling in his graph
He adorned it with color and very subtle shading
And humble yet, oh, so brilliant math
And he spent his year locked in his office with his shiny papers
And his woman he refused to see
So she went off and dated a lonely sociologist
While John still sat with data on his knee
It was in the month of May, on a cold sunny day
When John was told the current news
That his woman was engaged now to a balding preacher
With lots of cash and a church with crowded pews
But John didn’t care for he’d found his answer
That same day while studying in the bath
That the one he really loved in his heart, in his soul
Was not his girl but his very lovely graph