I:I was in my science class when I heard the students laugh
I couldn't do the lab 'cause I don't know how to math
I just can't understand the simplest problems
When it comes to math I just dunno how to solve them
Try as I might I always need a calculator
Doing math homework, I'm the great procrastinator
Addition and subtraction aren't really that tough
but throw in some fractions and I've had enough
Multiplying's ok, but I can't stand long division
I think I'd rather have a second circumcision
When taking a test I copied from Jonah, sitting near me
'Cause "the problem with math is that it only works in theory"

K:I don't know how to math.
I won't cry so I laugh.
When you read my epitaph
It'll say "He didn't know the math."

K:I've had a strange relationship with the arithmetic
When I think about the hours I wasted, makes me kinda sick.
See I guess I must've been good at it very early on
'Cause they elevated me to a class that's one step beyond
This led me to a bunch of concepts that I'll never use
and I was a year too young for them. I felt a bit abused.
I think that if I just stayed put I would've been ok.
But I barely even passed it even stud'yin hours a day.
On the plus side I had no math classes in my senior year.
But dude, you know how little math I use in my career?
Especially with calculators being commonplace
Advanced concepts I'll never use felt like a total waste

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I:It's bad enough when numbers are involved
but you throw in some letters and it'll never get solved
i before n equals negative five
and don't even ask me for the square root of pi
Calculus, algebra, it's all Greek to me
Don't get me started on trigonometry
'cause honestly, I see numbers and I worry
Can't tell an algorithm from an allegory
It's the same old story, as old as time
Just ask Newton or even Einstein
When it comes to math, I don't know nuthin' about it
That's why at tax season I hire an accountant