Neil Bartram
Pi (Part 3) / Relativity (Reprise 2)
[ADAM]
Love's an illusion
Ineffable. Blind
Numbers are structured
Finite. Confined
Equations like pi
Are always precisely defined

And not some frivolous, misguided notion like -

How my life could change
For the sake of just one flower
(A rose, is a rose, is a rose, is a rose.)

It could be wonderful and strange
Dancing by the hour
(A-one two three, one two three, one two three, one two.)
And could it be relationships
Between two things are
More than ratios?
And so much more than one red rose?
Who knows?

Numbers are solid
Dependable, true
It's amazing what simple
Mathematics can do
A rose equals a dance
And a touch
And a smell
And a gaze
And the hope
Of something new-

But pi is exactly three point one four one five nine-
Two-
Six-
Five-
Three five eight-
Nine seven nine three two three eight-

[ALL]
Light as it speeds
Light as it simmers
Light as it pierces the sky
Aaaaahhh

[ADAM]
If I bring her one red rose

[ALL]
Something awakes
It trembles and simmers
[GROUP 1]
A force that is yearning to fly

[GROUP 2]
A force that is yearning to fly

[CAROLINE, ANTHONY]
A force that is yearning to

[ANTHONY]
Fly