Lyrics Mandelbrot Set.lrc Jonathan Coulton
[id: raahkadm]
[ar: Jonathan Coulton]
[al: JoCo Looks Back]
[ti: Mandelbrot Set]
[length: 04:24]
[00:13.54]”Pathological monsters!”
[00:16.01]Cried the terrified mathematician
[00:19.27]Every one of them is a splinter in my eye
[00:24.82]I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve
[00:27.93]I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
[00:31.04]The Sierpinski Gasket makes me wanna cry
[00:37.14]And a million miles away
[00:40.42]A butterfly flapped its wings
[00:43.16]On a cold November day
[00:46.38]A man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born
[00:50.65]
[00:55.13]His disdain for pure mathematics
[00:58.06]And his unique geometrical insights
[01:01.15]Left him well equipped to face those demons down
[01:07.09]He saw that infinite complexity
[01:09.93]Could be described by simple rules
[01:13.06]Used his giant brain to turn the game around
[01:19.17]And he looked below the storm
[01:22.45]And saw a vision in his head
[01:25.47]A bulbous pointy form
[01:28.10]Picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down
[01:34.07]Just take a point called Z in the complex plane
[01:37.44]Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
[01:40.40]And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
[01:43.27]And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C
[01:45.46]And so on
[01:46.22]If the series of Z’s should always stay
[01:49.40]Close to Z and never trend away
[01:51.95]That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
[01:54.61]Mandelbrot Set, you’re a Rorschach Test on fire
[01:58.17]You’re a day-glo pterodactyl
[02:01.11]You’re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
[02:03.97]You’re one badass fucking fractal
[02:06.99]And you’re just in time to save the day
[02:10.59]Sweeping all our fears away
[02:13.17]You can change the world in a tiny way
[02:17.12]
[02:22.50]Mandelbrot’s in heaven
[02:25.04]At least he will be when he’s dead
[02:28.01]Right now he’s still alive and teaching math at Yale
[02:34.02]Gave us order out of chaos
[02:37.18]He gave us hope where there was none
[02:40.11]His geometry succeeds where other fail
[02:46.16]If you ever lose your way
[02:49.46]A butterfly will flap its wings
[02:52.26]From a million miles away
[02:55.05]A little miracle will come to take you home
[03:00.98]Just take a point called Z in the complex plane
[03:04.32]Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
[03:07.23]And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
[03:10.24]And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C
[03:12.39]And so on
[03:13.13]If the series of Z’s should always stay
[03:16.50]Close to Z and never trend away
[03:18.92]That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
[03:21.63]Mandelbrot Set, you’re a Rorschach Test on fire
[03:25.18]You’re a day-glo pterodactyl
[03:28.18]You’re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
[03:30.95]You’re one badass fucking fractal
[03:33.10]And you’re just in time to save the day
[03:37.54]Sweeping all our fears away
[03:40.08]You can change the world in a tiny way
[03:45.96]And you’re just in time to save the day
[03:49.46]Sweeping all our fears away
[03:52.14]You can change the world in a tiny way
[03:54.95]Go on, change the world in a tiny way
[03:57.95]Come on, change the world in a tiny way
[04:02.80]Year of Release: 2009